THE GREAT RUPERT

ll in which a miserly landlord hides his hoard. Credits: Producer, George Pal; director, Irving Pichel; story, Ted Allen; screenplay, Laslo Vadnay; music, Leith Stevens; orchestrations, Clarence Wheeler; film editor, Duke Goldstone. Cast: Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth, Sara Haden

Registration LP2894 No renewal found

Term began: 1950-03-05
Claimant: George Pal Productions, 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)

An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

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.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP2894.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 6956–6968.

the hollow wall in which a miserly land- 
lord hides his hoard. 

Credits: Producer, George Pal; director, 
Irving Pichel; story, Ted Allen; screen- 
play, Laslo Vadnay; music, Leith Stevens; 
orchestrations, Clarence Wheeler; film 
editor, Duke Goldstone. Cast: Jimmy 
Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, 
Frank Orth, Sara Haden. 

© George Pal Productions, Inc.; 5Mars0 
(in notice: 1949); LP2894.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
The Great Rupert (1950)	1950	346	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
The Great Rupert	1950	107	opensource_movies, fav-brendan_s_

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