Public Reel

CAMERA SLEUTH

ure. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Pete Smith Specialty Series) Summary: A private detective uses his camera to obtain evidence in tracking down a fraudulent claim. é Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director, David Barclay; screenplay, James Gruen, David Barclay; film editor, Joseph Dietrick

Registration LP890 No renewal found

Term began
1951-05-03
Claimant
Loew's Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1978-1980 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1980 (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 1978 or 1979 volume; volumes searched: 1978, 1979, 1980.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 2788–2801.

picture. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Pete 
Smith Specialty Series) 

Summary: A private detective uses his 
camera to obtain evidence in tracking down 
a fraudulent claim. é 

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete 
Smith; director, David Barclay; screenplay, 
James Gruen, David Barclay; film editor, 
Joseph Dietrick. 

© Loew's Inc.; 3May51 (in notice: 1950); 
LP890. 

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