JOE TURNER, AMERICAN
ell as the privileges of being an American citizen, A Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, Sammy Lee; screenplay, David P. Sheppard; music, David Chudnow; narrator, Vincent J. Pelletier; film editor, Richard G. Wray. Cast: Don Beddoe, Robert Shayne, Douglass Dumbrille, Morris Ankrum, Art Baker
Registration LP218 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1950-04-14
- Claimant
- Apex 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)
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 no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
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 37839–37853.
well as the privileges of being an American citizen, A Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, Sammy Lee; screenplay, David P. Sheppard; music, David Chudnow; narrator, Vincent J. Pelletier; film editor, Richard G. Wray. Cast: Don Beddoe, Robert Shayne, Douglass Dumbrille, Morris Ankrum, Art Baker. © Apex Film Corp.; 14Apr50; LP218,
Copies on the Internet Archive
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