Public Reel

WALK SOFTLY, STRANGER

g invalid, Credits: Producer, Robert Sparks; director, Robert Stevenson; screenplay, Frank Fenton; story, Manny Seff, Paul Yawitz; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; music author, Frederick Hollander; film editor, Frederic Knudtson. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Valli, Spring Byington, Paul Stewart, Jack Parr

Registration LP414 Renewed

Term began
1949-12-31
Claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal R656587 filed (date unreadable) by General, Inc (date+title; CCE 1977, OCR line 57616)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2045 (95 years from the 1949 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R656587 (link: date+title, title similarity 0.61)

Renewal claimant
General, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
Original cited
None / 31Dec49
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1977: Internet Archive 1977motionpictur3311213libr, OCR text line 57616
R656587. 
Walk softly, stranger. 
Pictires, Inc. © 31Dec49; 
General, Inc. (PWH); 14Mar77; 
By RKO Radio 
LP4i4. ' RKO 

Renewal R656587 (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
55950 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1977: Internet Archive 1977motionpictur3311213libr, OCR text line 57610
Enterprises, Inc. © 30Dec49; 12762. 
CBS, Inc., formerly Columbia Broadcasting 
System, Inc. (PWH); 23Mar77; R6€55950. 
R656587. 
Walk softly, stranger. 

This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “Original number missing (likely LP or similar) due to OCR damage. Title and renewal claimant reconstructed from surrounding lines; 'Pictires, Inc.' likely 'Pictures, Inc.' but not part of claimant.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 48734–48746.

young invalid, 

Credits: Producer, Robert Sparks; 
director, Robert Stevenson; screenplay, 
Frank Fenton; story, Manny Seff, Paul 
Yawitz; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; 
music author, Frederick Hollander; film 
editor, Frederic Knudtson. Cast: Joseph 
Cotten, Valli, Spring Byington, Paul Stewart, 
Jack Parr. 

© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 31Dec49; 
LP414, 

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