THE BIG LIFT

tary drama depicts the intricacies and hazards of the airlift operations. Credits: Producer, William Perlberg; written and directed by George Seaton; music, Alfred Newman; film editors, Robert Simpson, William Reynolds. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Lobel, O. E. Hasse

Registration LP204 No renewal found

Term began

1950-04-26

Claimant

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp

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.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 31776–31791.

this semi-documentary drama depicts the 
intricacies and hazards of the airlift oper- 
ations. 

Credits: Producer, William Perlberg; 
written and directed by George Seaton; 
music, Alfred Newman; film editors, 
Robert Simpson, William Reynolds. 

Cast: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, 
Cornell Borchers, Bruni Lobel, O. E. 
Hasse. 

© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 

26Apr50; LP204. 

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