Public Reel

THE ADMIRAL WAS A LADY

f the 52-20 Club, and their efforts to remain unemployed. Credits: Producer and director, Albert S. Rogell; original story and screenplay, Sidney Salkow, John O'Dea; music score, Edward J. Kay; film editor, William Ziegler. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Steve Brodie, Johnny Sands

Registration LP263 No renewal found

Term began
1950-08-04
Claimant
Roxbury Productions, 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)

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 30932–30945.

and four veterans, members of the 52-20 
Club, and their efforts to remain unem- 
ployed. 

Credits: Producer and director, Albert 
S. Rogell; original story and screenplay, 
Sidney Salkow, John O'Dea; music score, 
Edward J. Kay; film editor, William 
Ziegler. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda 
Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Steve Brodie, 
Johnny Sands. 

© Roxbury Productions, Inc.; 4Aug50; 
LP263. 

Copies on the Internet Archive

ItemYearDownloadsCollection
The Admiral Was A Lady1950115,855Comedy_Films, feature_films
The Admiral Was a Lady (1950) DVD MKV1950694Comedy_Films, feature_films

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