SPECIAL AGENT

on fact. Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas; director, William C. Thomas; screenplay, Lewis R. Foster, Whitman Chambers, based on material by Milton Raison; music score, Lucien Cailliet; film editor, Howard Smith. Cast: William Eythe, George Reeves, Laura Elliott, Paul Valentine

Registration LP2519 No renewal found

Term began

1949-07-22

Claimant

Paramount Pictures 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 36572–36584.

pair of train robbers. Based on fact. 

Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, 
William C. Thomas; director, William C. 
Thomas; screenplay, Lewis R. Foster, 
Whitman Chambers, based on material by 
Milton Raison; music score, Lucien 
Cailliet; film editor, Howard Smith. 
Cast: William Eythe, George Reeves, 
Laura Elliott, Paul Valentine. 

© Paramount Pictures Inc. ; 22Jul49; 
LP2519. 

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