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ion in South Africa. The son of an elderly Negro Anglican priest murders the son of a bigoted white man. Filmed in South Africa. Credits: Producer and director, Zoltan Korda; screenplay, Alan Paton; film editor, David Eady. Cast: Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson, Joyce Carey, Geoffrey Keen
Registration LP1490 Renewed
- Term began
- 1951-11-15
- Claimant
- British Lion Film Corp
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE40846 filed 1979-12-05 by EMI Films, Ltd. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6938327)
- 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 RE40846 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.03)
- Renewal claimant
- EMI Films, Ltd.
- Renewal date
- 1979-12-05
- Original cited
- LP1490 / 1951-11-15
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6938327: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE40846, registered 1979-12-05, for original registration LP1490 published 1951-11-15.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 3858–3870.
tensions and discrimination in South Africa. The son of an elderly Negro Anglican priest murders the son of a bigoted white man. Filmed in South Africa. Credits: Producer and director, Zoltan Korda; screenplay, Alan Paton; film editor, David Eady. Cast: Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson, Joyce Carey, Geoffrey Keen. © British Lion Film Corp.; Ltd.; 15Nov51; LP1490.
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