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GERMELSHAUSEN

. Based on the story of the same title by Friedrich Gerstacker. Summary: An American soldier in Germany accidentally stumbles upon an accursed village that appears only once in every 100 years. Credits: Producer and director, Frank Wisbar; screenplay, James Griffin Jay; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd

Registration LP51 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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 6523–6536.

b&w, 16mm. Based on the story of the 
same title by Friedrich Gerstacker. 

Summary: An American soldier in 
Germany accidentally stumbles upon an 
accursed village that appears only once in 
every 100 years. 

Credits: Producer and director, Frank 
Wisbar; screenplay, James Griffin Jay; 
film editor, Holbrook N. Todd. 

© General Television Enterprises, Inc. ; 
15Apr50 (in notice: 1949); LP51. 

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