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y Special, no. 4) Summary: A slapstick comedy about an amateur Sleuth who solves the mystery of a missing heir. Credits: Producer, George Bilson; director, Hal Yates; screenplay, Elwood Ullman; film editor, Edward W. Williams. Cast: Gil Lamb, Carol Hughes, Donald MacBride, Donna Martell, Jim Hayward

Registration LP1588 Renewed

Term began
1952-03-07
Claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE63374 filed 1980-07-18 by Marian B., Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6960850)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 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 RE63374 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Marian B., Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-07-18
Original cited
LP1588 / 1952-03-07
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6960850: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE63374, registered 1980-07-18, for original registration LP1588 published 1952-03-07.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 6396–6410.

18 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Comedy Special, 
no. 4) 

Summary: A slapstick comedy about an 
amateur Sleuth who solves the mystery of a 
missing heir. 

Credits: Producer, George Bilson; direc- 
tor, Hal Yates; screenplay, Elwood Ullman; 
film editor, Edward W. Williams. Cast: 
Gil Lamb, Carol Hughes, Donald MacBride, 
Donna Martell, Jim Hayward. 

© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 7Mar52; 
LP1588. 

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