Public Reel

THE PILGRIMAGE PLAY

m. Based on the play of the same title by Christine W. Stevenson. Summary: Portrays the life of Jesus of Nazareth. Credits: Producer, Roland Reed; director, Frank Strayer; musical director, Al Colombo; film editor, Roy Luby. Cast: Nelson Leigh, Leonard Penn, Gene Gates, Stephen Chase, Dana Skolfield

Registration LP999 No renewal found

Term began
1950-01-16
Claimant
Preferred Pictures 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)

An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 15142–15155.

16mm. Based on the play of the same title 
by Christine W. Stevenson. 

Summary: Portrays the life of Jesus of 
Nazareth. 

Credits: Producer, Roland Reed; director, 
Frank Strayer; musical director, Al Colom- 
bo; film editor, Roy Luby. Cast: Nelson 
Leigh, Leonard Penn, Gene Gates, Stephen 
Chase, Dana Skolfield. 

© Preferred Pictures Corp.; 16Jan50 (in 
notice: 1949); LP999. 

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