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ACE IN THE HOLE

Mexico cave so that he may have a sensational story for his newspaper. Credits: Producer and director, Billy Wilder; written by Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, and Walter Newman; music score, Hugo Friedhofer; editor, Arthur Schmidt. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Bob Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady

Registration LP1106 Renewed

Term began
1951-07-01
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE16400 filed 1979-03-26 by Paramount Pictures Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6913883)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2047 (95 years from the 1951 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 RE16400 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.14)

Renewal claimant
Paramount Pictures Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-03-26
Original cited
LP1106 / 1951-07-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6913883: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE16400, registered 1979-03-26, for original registration LP1106 published 1951-07-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 30148–30159.

in a New Mexico cave so that he may have a 
sensational story for his newspaper. 

Credits: Producer and director, Billy 
Wilder; written by Billy Wilder, Lesser 
Samuels, and Walter Newman; music score, 
Hugo Friedhofer; editor, Arthur Schmidt. 
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Bob 
Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 1Jul51; 
LP1106. 

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