QUICKSAND

nters upon a career of crime that begins with petty larceny and ends in near-murder. Credits: Producer, Mort Briskin; director, Irving Pichel; screenplay, Robert Smith; music, Louis Gruenberg; film editor, Walter Thompson. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre, Taylor Holmes

Registration LP2950 No renewal found

Term began: 1950-03-24
Claimant: Samuel H. Stiefel Productions
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 LP2950.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 15056–15068.

reluctantly enters upon a career of crime 
that begins with petty larceny and ends 
in near-murder. 

Credits: Producer, Mort Briskin; 
director, Irving Pichel; screenplay, 
Robert Smith; music, Louis Gruenberg; 
film editor, Walter Thompson. Cast: 
Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara 
Bates, Peter Lorre, Taylor Holmes. 

© Samuel H. Stiefel Productions; 
24Mar50 (in notice: 1949); LP2950.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Quicksand	1950	452,376	Film_Noir, feature_films
Quicksand	1950	95,113	Film_Noir, feature_films
Quicksand (1950) [P&M] DVD Rip (1.4GB)	1950	11,651	Film_Noir, feature_films
Quicksand	1950	10,029	Film_Noir, feature_films
Quicksand	1950	4,953	movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers

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76 shots over 1:19:02 in the Internet Archive copy Quicksand_clear, 5 with readable on-screen text. Every shot, with timestamps · JSON