DEVIL’S CARGO

irst in a series of murders solved by The Falcon, Credits: Producer, Philip N. Krasne; director, John F. Link; film editor, Asa Boyd Clark; original story, Robert Tallman, Jason James; screenplay, Don Martin; music director, Paul Dessau, Cast: John Calvert, Rochelle Hudson, Roscoe Karns, Lyle Talbot

Registration LP1540 No renewal found

Term began

1948-03-01

Claimant

Falcon Productions, Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1975-1977 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1977 (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 1975 or 1976 volume; volumes searched: 1975, 1976, 1977.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1948, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig321213lib (OCR text), lines 3025–3037.

operator is the first in a series of 
murders solved by The Falcon, 

Credits: Producer, Philip N. Krasne; 
director, John F. Link; film editor, Asa 
Boyd Clark; original story, Robert Tall- 
man, Jason James; screenplay, Don 
Martin; music director, Paul Dessau, 
Cast: John Calvert, Rochelle Hudson, 
Roscoe Karns, Lyle Talbot. 

© Falcon Productions, Inc.; 1Mar48; 
LP1540. 

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