THE AWFUL SLEUTH
adio repairmen. © Chrysler Corp.; 6Jun51; JP959. THE AWFUL SLEUTH. Columbia Pictures Corp., 1951. 16 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (All Star Comedy) Summary: A slapstick comedy. Credits: Producer, Hugh McCollum; director, Richard Quine; written by Elwood Ullman; film editor, Henry DeMond. Cast: Bert Wheeler
Registration LP1239 Renewed
- Term began
- 1951-04-19
- Claimant
- Columbia Pictures Corp
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE20403 filed 1979-04-02 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6917886)
- 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 RE20403 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1979-04-02
- Original cited
- LP1239 / 1951-04-19
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6917886: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE20403, registered 1979-04-02, for original registration LP1239 published 1951-04-19.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 30794–30810.
automobile radio repairmen. © Chrysler Corp.; 6Jun51; JP959. THE AWFUL SLEUTH. Columbia Pictures Corp., 1951. 16 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (All Star Comedy) Summary: A slapstick comedy. Credits: Producer, Hugh McCollum; director, Richard Quine; written by Elwood Ullman; film editor, Henry DeMond. Cast: Bert Wheeler. © Columbia Pictures Corp.; 19Apr51; LP1239.
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