THE PRESIDENT'S MYSTERY
THE PRESIDENT'S MYSTERY. 1936. 9 reels. Based on "The President's Mystery Story" propounded by Franklin D. Roosevelt; solved by Rupert Hughes, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Anthony Abbot [pseud. of Fulton Oursler], Rita Weiman, S. S. Van Dine [pseud. of Willard Huntington Wright], and John Erskine.
Producer, Nat Levine; director, Phil Rosen; screenplay, Lester Cole, Nathanael West.
Registration LP6685 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1936-10-06
- Claimant
- Republic Pictures Corp
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1963-1965 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1965 (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 1963 or 1964 volume; volumes searched: 1963, 1964, 1965.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 192765–192775.
THE PRESIDENT'S MYSTERY. 1936. 9 reels. Based on "The President's
Mystery Story" propounded by Franklin D. Roosevelt; solved by Rupert
Hughes, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Anthony Abbot [pseud. of Fulton
Oursler], Rita Weiman, S. S. Van Dine [pseud. of Willard Huntington
Wright], and John Erskine.
Credits: Producer, Nat Levine; director, Phil Rosen; screenplay,
Lester Cole, Nathanael West.
© Republic Pictures Corp.; 6Oct36; LP6685.
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