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fiction writer, his domestic difficulties and his secretaries, Credits: Producer, Leo C. Popkin; directed and written by Charles Martin; film editor, Arthur H. Nadel; music supervisor, David Chudnow; music score, Heinz Roemheld. Cast: Laraine Day, Kirk Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Helen Walker, Rudy Vallee

Registration LP1899 No renewal found

Term began

1948-11-05

Claimant

Cardinal Pictures, 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 25106–25121.

Summary: A farce about a fiction writer, 
his domestic difficulties and his secre- 
taries, 

Credits: Producer, Leo C. Popkin; 
directed and written by Charles Martin; 
film editor, Arthur H. Nadel; music super- 
visor, David Chudnow; music score, 

Heinz Roemheld. Cast: Laraine Day, Kirk 
Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Helen Walker, 
Rudy Vallee. 

© Cardinal Pictures, Inc.; 5Nov48; 

LP1899. 

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