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THE DARK PAST

vicious killer. Credits: Producer, Buddy Adler; director, Rudolph Mate; screenplay, Philip Mac- Donald, Michael Blankfort, Albert Duffy; music score, George Duning; music director, M. W. Stoloff; film editor, Viola Lawrence. Cast: William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb, Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne

Registration LP2034 Renewed

Term began
1949-01-07
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding
renewal R625264 filed 1976-02-03 by Columbia (number+year; CCE 1976, OCR line 53584)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2045 (95 years from the 1949 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 R625264 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.03)

Renewal claimant
Columbia (PWH)
Renewal date
1976-02-03
Original cited
L2034 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 53584
R625263. 
By Columbia Pictures 
L2034. Columbia 
(PWH); 3Feb76; 
R625264, 

Low confidence: the original date in this record is unreadable, so the link rests on the number and the renewal year.

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

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
25263 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 53575
GC 14Mar47; 11001, 
28Feb75; R625235. 
625263. 
The Dark past. 
Corporation. € 7Jan49; 
Pictures Industries, Inc. 
R625263. 

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: “Renewal number R625263 is read from the text. Original number L2034 likely LP2034. Renewal date is missing/unreadable. Title 'The Dark past' is from the line before 'Corporation' which is likely a misread of 'Corporation' for 'Corporation' or part of 'Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.'”

Renewal R625263 (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
None / 7Jan49
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 53578
625263. 
The Dark past. 
Corporation. € 7Jan49; 
Pictures Industries, Inc. 
R625263. 
By Columbia Pictures 

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: “Title from surrounding line. Original date from '7Jan49'. Renewal claimant reconstructed from 'Corporation. € 7Jan49; Pictures Industries, Inc.' and 'By Columbia Pictures L2034. Columbia (PWH); 3Feb76;'. Renewal date from '3Feb76'. Original number not clearly associated with this record.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 3372–3385.

helped to transform him into a vicious 
killer. 

Credits: Producer, Buddy Adler; director, 
Rudolph Mate; screenplay, Philip Mac- 
Donald, Michael Blankfort, Albert Duffy; 
music score, George Duning; music 
director, M. W. Stoloff; film editor, 
Viola Lawrence. Cast: William Holden, 
Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb, Adele Jergens, 
Stephen Dunne. 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 7Jan49; 
LP2034. 

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