Public Reel

CHAIN LIGHTNING

of an opportunistic plane manufacturer. Credits: Producer, Anthony Veiller; director, Stuart Heisler; story, J. Redmond Prior; screenplay, Liam O'Brien, Vincent Evans; music, David Buttolph; film editor, Thomas Reilly. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker, Raymond Massey, Richard Whorf, James Brown

Registration LP2926 No renewal found

Term began
1950-02-06
Claimant
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc
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 2824–2836.

of an opportunistic plane manufacturer. 

Credits: Producer, Anthony Veiller; 
director, Stuart Heisler; story, J. Red- 
mond Prior; screenplay, Liam O'Brien, 
Vincent Evans; music, David Buttolph; 
film editor, Thomas Reilly. Cast: 
Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Parker, Ray- 
mond Massey, Richard Whorf, James 
Brown. 

© Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 
6Feb50 (in notice: 1949); LP2926. 

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