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THE RETURN OF THE WHISTLER

C. Flothow; director, D. Ross Lederman; film editor, Dwight Caldwell; story, Cornell Woolrich; screenplay, Edward Bock, Maurice Tombragel; “‘Whistler’’ theme music by Wilbur | Hatch; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff. Cast: Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane, James Cardwell, Ann Shoemaker

Registration LP1823 Renewed

Term began
1948-03-18
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding
renewal filed (date unreadable) by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc (date+title; CCE 1975, OCR line 47555)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2044 (95 years from the 1948 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal (link: date+title, title similarity 0.52)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc (EWH)
Renewal date
Original cited
11823 / 18Mar48
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1975: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3291213libr, OCR text line 47555
R604925. 
The Return of the Whistler. 
Pictures Ccrpceration. 7 reels. 
© 18Mar48; 11823. Columbia Pictures 
Industries, Inc. (EWH)3 8May75; R6€04925. 
Ey Columbia 

Renewal R604926 (link: llm:number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
04925 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1975: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3291213libr, OCR text line 47556
The Return of the Whistler. 
Pictures Ccrpceration. 7 reels. 
© 18Mar48; 11823. Columbia Pictures 
Industries, Inc. (EWH)3 8May75; R6€04925. 
Ey Columbia 

This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “The renewal number R604925 is clearly associated with 'The Return of the Whistler'. The OCR shows 'R6€04925' which is a misread of R604925. The original number is '11823' which is likely LP1823 (OCR dropped the P and misread 8 as 1? Actually '11823' is likely LP1823, a common LP number format). The renewal claimant and date are taken from the surrounding lines for R604924 and R604925.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1948, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig321213lib (OCR text), lines 28107–28126.

Credits: Producer, Rudolph C. Flothow; 
director, D. Ross Lederman; film editor, 
Dwight Caldwell; story, Cornell Woolrich; 
screenplay, Edward Bock, Maurice Tom- 
bragel; “‘Whistler’’ theme music by Wilbur 


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Hatch; music director, Mischa Bakaleini- 
koff. Cast: Michael Duane, Lenore 
Aubert, Richard Lane, James Cardwell, 
Ann Shoemaker, 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 18Mar48; 
LP1823. 

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