HE WALKED BY NIGHT

Kane; director, Alfred Werker; original story, Crane Wilbur; screenplay, John C. Higgins, Crane Wilbur; additional dialogue, Harry Essex; music, Leonid Raab; music director, Irving Friedman; film editor, Alfred De Gaetano. Cast: Richard Basehart Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell

Registration LP2291 No renewal found

Term began

1948-11-13

Claimant

Pathe Industries, 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, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 5177–5188.

Credits: Producer, Robert T. Kane; 
director, Alfred Werker; original story, 
Crane Wilbur; screenplay, John C. Higgins, 
Crane Wilbur; additional dialogue, Harry 
Essex; music, Leonid Raab; music direc- 
tor, Irving Friedman; film editor, Alfred 
De Gaetano. Cast: Richard Basehart 
Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, 
James Cardwell. 

© Pathe Industries, Inc.; 13Nov48; 
LP2291, 

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