DRUMS IN THE DEEP SOUTH

Setting: Georgia during the Civil War. Credits: Producers, Maurice King, Frank King; director, William Cameron Menzies; screenplay, Philip Yordan, Sidney Harmon; music, Dimitri Tiomkin; film editor, Richard Heermance. Cast: James Craig, Barbara Payton, Guy Madison, Barton Mac- Lane, Robert Osterloh

Registration LP1224 No renewal found

Term began: 1951-10-07
Claimant: RKO Radio Pictures, 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 33369–33381.

to halt Sherman's march to the sea. Setting: 
Georgia during the Civil War. 

Credits: Producers, Maurice King, Frank 
King; director, William Cameron Menzies; 
screenplay, Philip Yordan, Sidney Harmon; 
music, Dimitri Tiomkin; film editor, 
Richard Heermance. Cast: James Craig, 
Barbara Payton, Guy Madison, Barton Mac- 
Lane, Robert Osterloh. 

© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 7Oct51; 
LP1224.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Drums in the Deep South	1951	156,984	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Drums In The Deep South	1951	24,435	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Drums in the Deep South (1951)	1951	133	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Drums in the Deep South (1951)	1951	127	opensource_movies, community
Drums in the Deep South (1951; smallest download)	1951	110	opensource_movies, fav-mckow

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