Public Reel

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.

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 LP218.

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, 

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