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.
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 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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