Public Reel

NATIVE SON

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.

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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. 

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