TOP O' THE MORNING

helps the local police sergeant catch the thief. Credits: Producer, Robert L. Welch; director, David Miller; written by Edmund Beloin, Richard Breen; music director, Robert Emmett Dolan; editor, Arthur Schmidt. Cast: Bing Crosby, Ann Blyth, Barry Fitzgerald, Hume Cronyn, Eileen Crowe, John Mcintyre

Registration LP2572 No renewal found

Term began

1949-09-05

Claimant

Bing Crosby Enterprises, 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 37714–37726.

a little Irish village where he helps the 
local police sergeant catch the thief. 

Credits: Producer, Robert L. Welch; 
director, David Miller; written by Ed- 
mund Beloin, Richard Breen; music direc- 
tor, Robert Emmett Dolan; editor, Arthur 
Schmidt. Cast: Bing Crosby, Ann Blyth, 
Barry Fitzgerald, Hume Cronyn, Eileen 
Crowe, John Mcintyre. 

© Bing Crosby Enterprises, Inc. ; 
5Sep49; LP2572. 

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