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s frantically hides from the police. Filmed in Chicago and Buenos Aires. Credits: Producer, James Prades; director, Pierre Chenal; screenplay, Pierre Chenal, Richard Wright; music, John Elhert; film editor, George Garate. Cast: Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Nicholas Joy, Gloria Madison, Charles Cane
Registration LP1023 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1951-03-08
- Claimant
- Walter Gould
- 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.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 40361–40372.
Negro from the Chicago slums frantically hides from the police. Filmed in Chicago and Buenos Aires. Credits: Producer, James Prades; direc- tor, Pierre Chenal; screenplay, Pierre Chenal, Richard Wright; music, John Elhert; film editor, George Garate. Cast: Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Nicholas Joy, Gloria Madison, Charles Cane. © Walter Gould; 8Mar51; LP1023.
Copies on the Internet Archive
Searched on 5 September 2026; no item with this title and year was found.