Public Reel

CAPTAIN CHINA

safely through a typhoon. Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas; director, Lewis R. Foster; story, John and Gwen Bagni; screenplay, Lewis R. Foster, Gwen Bagni; music, Lucien Cailliet; film editor, Howard Smith. Cast: John Payne, Gail Russell, Jeffrey Lynn, Lon Chaney, Edgar Bergen

Registration LP2855 No renewal found

Term began
1950-02-17
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1977-1979 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1979 (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 1977 or 1978 volume; volumes searched: 1977, 1978, 1979.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 2476–2488.

ship safely through a typhoon. 

Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, 
William C. Thomas; director, Lewis R. 
Foster; story, John and Gwen Bagni; 
screenplay, Lewis R. Foster, Gwen 
Bagni; music, Lucien Cailliet; film editor, 
Howard Smith. Cast: John Payne, Gail 
Russell, Jeffrey Lynn, Lon Chaney, Ed- 
gar Bergen. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 17Feb50 
(in notice: 1949); LP2855. 

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