SILENT DUST

battle, learns with a shock his true character. Credits: Producer, N, A. Bronsten; director, Lance Comfort; screenplay, Michael Pertwee; music, Georges Auric; conductor, George Melachrino; film editor, Lito Carruthers. Cast: Stephen Murray, Beatrice Campbell, Seymour Hicks, Nigel Patrick, Sally Gray

Registration LP2734 No renewal found

Term began

1950-01-10

Claimant

Stratford Pictures Corp

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.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 16633–16645.

idolized only son in battle, learns with 
a shock his true character. 

Credits: Producer, N, A. Bronsten; 
director, Lance Comfort; screenplay, 
Michael Pertwee; music, Georges Auric; 
conductor, George Melachrino; film 
editor, Lito Carruthers. Cast: Stephen 
Murray, Beatrice Campbell, Seymour 
Hicks, Nigel Patrick, Sally Gray. 

© Stratford Pictures Corp.; 10Jan50; 
LP2734. 

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