CHECKMATE
CHECKMATE. Ace Pictures, Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Summary: A scientist's dangerous experiment in creating a machine that thinks culminates in tragedy. Credits: Producer, Louis Brandt; director, Lewis D. Collins; screenplay, Oliver Crawford; film editor, Henry Adams
Registration LP58 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1950-04-15
- Claimant
- General Television Enterprises, Inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- 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.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 2917–2930.
CHECKMATE. Ace Pictures, Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Summary: A scientist's dangerous ex- periment in creating a machine that thinks culminates in tragedy. Credits: Producer, Louis Brandt; director, Lewis D. Collins; screenplay, Oliver Crawford; film editor, Henry Adams. © General Television Enterprises, Inc.; 15Apr50 (in notice: 1949); LP58.
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