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Negro doctor whose white prison patient died. Credits: Producer, Darryl F. Zanuck; director, Joseph Mankiewicz; screenplay, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels; music, Alfred Newman; editor, Barbara McLean, Cast: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier, Mildred Joanne Smith

Registration LP518 No renewal found

Term began
1950-08-16
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)

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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 41713–41725.

prejudice as it affected a young Negro 
doctor whose white prison patient died. 

Credits: Producer, Darryl F. Zanuck; 
director, Joseph Mankiewicz; screenplay, 
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels; 
music, Alfred Newman; editor, Barbara 
McLean, Cast: Richard Widmark, Linda 
Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier, 
Mildred Joanne Smith. 

© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 
16Aug50; LP518. 

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