KILLER DILL

KILLER DILL. Nivel Pictures Corp., 1947. 73 min., sd., b&w., 35mm. Credits: Producer, Max M. King; director, Lewis D. Collins; editor, Marty Cohn; original story, Alan Friedman; screenplay, John O Dea; music, Johnny Thompson. Cast: Stuart Erwin, Anne Gwynne, Frank Albertson, and others

Registration LP1188 No renewal found

Term began

1947-08-20

Claimant

Nivel Pictures Corp., Hollywood

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1974-1976 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1976 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1974 or 1975 volume; volumes searched: 1974, 1975, 1976.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1947, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig31121libr (OCR text), lines 17769–17780.

KILLER DILL. Nivel Pictures Corp., 1947. 
73 min., sd., b&w., 35mm. 

Credits: Producer, Max M. King; 
director, Lewis D. Collins; editor, Marty 
Cohn; original story, Alan Friedman; 
screenplay, John O Dea; music, Johnny 
Thompson. Cast: Stuart Erwin, Anne 
Gwynne, Frank Albertson, and others. 

© Nivel Pictures Corp., Hollywood; 
20Aug47; LP1188. 

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