Public Reel

THE HASTY HEART

teach a dying Scottish soldier, embittered by an unhappy childhood, the meaning of friendship. Credits: Director, Vincent Sherman; screenplay, Ranald MacDougall; music director, Louis Levy; film editor, E. B. Jarvis. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls, Howard Crawford

Registration LP2929 No renewal found

Term began
1950-01-14
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)

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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 7235–7247.

hospital teach a dying Scottish soldier, 
embittered by an unhappy childhood, the 
meaning of friendship. 

Credits: Director, Vincent Sherman; 
screenplay, Ranald MacDougall; music 
director, Louis Levy; film editor, E. B. 
Jarvis. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Patricia 
Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls, 
Howard Crawford. 

© Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 14Jan50 
(in notice: 1949); LP2929. 

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