AFRICA SCREAMS

mm. Summary: A slapstick comedy in which Abbott and Costello penetrate darkest Africa. Credits: Producer, Edward Nassour; director. Charles Barton; story and screenplay, Earl Baldwin; music, Walter Schumann; film editor, David Gross. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck, Max Baer

Registration LP2771 No renewal found

Term began

1949-05-27

Claimant

Nasbro 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, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 598–612.

1949. 80 min., sd., b&w. 35mm. 

Summary: A slapstick comedy in which 
Abbott and Costello penetrate darkest 
Africa. 

Credits: Producer, Edward Nassour; 
director. Charles Barton; story and 
screenplay, Earl Baldwin; music, Walter 
Schumann; film editor, David Gross. 
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde 
Beatty, Frank Buck, Max Baer. 

© Nasbro Pictures, Inc.; 27May49; 
LP2771. 

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