THE FALLEN IDOL

ducer and director, Carol Reed; screenplay, Graham Greene; additional dialogue, Lesley Storm, William Templeton; music composed by William Alwyn; music director, Hubert Clifford; editor, Oswald Hafenrichter. Cast: Bobby Henrey, Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Denis O'Dea, Dora Bryan

Registration LP2441 No renewal found

Term began

1949-07-26

Claimant

Vanguard 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 26667–26677.

Credits: Producer and director, Carol 
Reed; screenplay, Graham Greene; addi- 
tional dialogue, Lesley Storm, William 
Templeton; music composed by William 
Alwyn; music director, Hubert Clifford; 
editor, Oswald Hafenrichter. Cast: 
Bobby Henrey, Ralph Richardson, Michele 
Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Denis O'Dea, 
Dora Bryan. 

© Vanguard Films, Inc.; 26Jul49; LP2441, 

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