C-MAN

s Department tracks down a jewel smuggler and uncovers a series of murders. Filmed in New York. Credits: Producer and director, Joseph Lerner; original screenplay, Berne Giler; music, Gail Kubik; film editor, Geraldine Lerner. Cast: Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Lottie Elwen, Rene Paul, Harry Landers

Registration LP2286 No renewal found

Term began

1949-05-16

Claimant

Laurel Films, Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1976-1978 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025

In the public domain since

1 January 1978 (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 1976 or 1977 volume; volumes searched: 1976, 1977, 1978.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 2106–2117.

Department tracks down a jewel smuggler 
and uncovers a series of murders. Filmed 
in New York. 

Credits: Producer and director, Joseph 
Lerner; original screenplay, Berne Giler; 
music, Gail Kubik; film editor, Geraldine 
Lerner. Cast: Dean Jagger, John Carra- 
dine, Lottie Elwen, Rene Paul, Harry 
Landers. 

© Laurel Films, Inc.; 16May49; LP2286. 

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