Public Reel

THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

pinion to their support. Based on an incident that occurred 60 years ago. Credits: Producer and director, W. Lee Wilder; film editor, Asa Boyd Clark; screenplay, Guy Endore, Heinz Herald; music director, Paul Dessau. Cast: Conrad Nagel, Fritz Kortner, Reinhold Schunzel, Philip Van Zandt, Lyle Talbot

Registration LP1825 No renewal found

Term began
1948-09-03
Claimant
William Wilder
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.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP1825.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1948, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig321213lib (OCR text), lines 31499–31512.

patriot, rallies public opinion to their support. 


Based on an incident that occurred 60 years 
ago. 

Credits: Producer and director, W. Lee 
Wilder; film editor, Asa Boyd Clark; screen- 
play, Guy Endore, Heinz Herald; music 
director, Paul Dessau. Cast: Conrad Nagel, 
Fritz Kortner, Reinhold Schunzel, Philip 
Van Zandt, Lyle Talbot. 

© William Wilder; 3Sep48; LP1825. 

Copies on the Internet Archive

ItemYearDownloadsCollection
The Vicious Circle (1948)1948177feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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