MIRACLE IN HARLEM

when a supposedly dead woman rises from her coffin and forces the police to take action. Credits: Producer, Jack Goldberg; director, Jack Kemp; story and adaptation, Vincent Valentini; music director, John Gluskin. Cast: Sheila Guyse, Stepin Fetchit, Hilda Offley, Creighton Thompson, Kenneth Freeman

Registration LP192 No renewal found

Term began

1948-05-28

Claimant

Herald Pictures Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1975-1977 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1977 (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 1975 or 1976 volume; volumes searched: 1975, 1976, 1977.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 39555–39566.

Harlem is brought to an end when a 
supposedly dead woman rises from her 
coffin and forces the police to take action. 

Credits: Producer, Jack Goldberg; 
director, Jack Kemp; story and adaptation, 
Vincent Valentini; music director, John 
Gluskin. Cast: Sheila Guyse, Stepin 
Fetchit, Hilda Offley, Creighton Thompson, 
Kenneth Freeman. 

© Herald Pictures Inc.; 28May48; LP192. 

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