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CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY

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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