THE THIRD MAN

ostwar Vienna a blac market racketeer is hunted by the British authorities and betrayed by his friend. Credits: Producer and director, Carol Reed; screenplay, Graham Greene; zither music, Anton Karas; editor, Oswald Hafenrichter. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Paul Hoebiger

Registration LP2580 No renewal found

Term began: 1949-10-28
Claimant: London Film Productions, Ltd
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.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP2580.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 37492–37502.

Summary: In postwar Vienna a blac 
market racketeer is hunted by the British 
authorities and betrayed by his friend. 
Credits: Producer and director, Carol 
Reed; screenplay, Graham Greene; 
zither music, Anton Karas; editor, Os- 
wald Hafenrichter. Cast: Joseph Cotten, 
Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, 
Paul Hoebiger. 
© London Film Productions, Ltd.; 
280ct49; LP2580. Published in England,

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
The Third Man (1949)	1949	2,245	opensource_movies, fav-bjoernschneider
The. Third. Man. 1949.	1949	329	opensource_movies, fav-atoasteroven
The Third Man	1949	300	movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers
The Third Man	1949	268	movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers
The Third Man	1949	249	movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers

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