COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAIN- TIFF
., b&w, 16mm. Based on the story ''Colonel Starbottle's Client'’ by Bret Harte. Summary: A comedy in which a gifted lawyer of the Old West wins a highly irregular breach of promise suit for a charming client. Credits: Produced and written by Elihu Winer; director, Charles Haas; editor, Jodie Copelan
Registration LP2422 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1949-06-27
- Claimant
- Realm Television Productions, 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 25368–25382.
Productions, 1949. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on the story ''Colonel Starbottle's Client'’ by Bret Harte. Summary: A comedy in which a gifted lawyer of the Old West wins a highly irregular breach of promise suit for a charming client. Credits: Produced and written by Elihu Winer; director, Charles Haas; editor, Jodie Copelan. © Realm Television Productions, Inc. ; 27Jun49; LP2422.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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