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d couple is innocently involved in a jewel theft and a suicide. Credits: Producer, Wallace McDonald; director, Will Jason; written by David Lang; musical director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Aaron Stell. Cast: Richard Grayson, Margaret Field, Marta Mitrovich, Harold J. Kennedy, Helen Wallace

Registration LP1130 Renewed

Term began
1951-08-27
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE20400 filed 1979-04-02 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6917883)
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 RE20400 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-04-02
Original cited
LP1130 / 1951-08-27
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6917883: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE20400, registered 1979-04-02, for original registration LP1130 published 1951-08-27.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 31976–31988.

Summary: A young married couple is 
innocently involved in a jewel theft and a 
suicide. 

Credits: Producer, Wallace McDonald; 
director, Will Jason; written by David Lang; 
musical director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; 
film editor, Aaron Stell. Cast: Richard 
Grayson, Margaret Field, Marta Mitrovich, 
Harold J. Kennedy, Helen Wallace. 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 27Aug51; 
LP1130. 

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