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MOTHER WAS A BOOKMAKER

nsible wife outwits her husband ane thinks he has discovered a fool-proof scheme for picking race-horse winners, Credits: Producer, Gil Ralston; director, Leigh Jason; original story, Jack Harvey, Sol Shor; teleplay, Jack Harvey; film editor, Bob Oberbeck. Cast: Florence Lake, Don Beddoe, Joycé Lake

Registration LP1781 No renewal found

Term began
1952-06-05
Claimant
Sereen Associates, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1979-1981 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1981 (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 1979 or 1980 volume; volumes searched: 1979, 1980, 1981.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 11194–11206.

Summary: A sensible wife outwits her 
husband ane thinks he has discovered a 
fool-proof scheme for picking race-horse 
winners, 

Credits: Producer, Gil Ralston; director, 
Leigh Jason; original story, Jack Harvey, 
Sol Shor; teleplay, Jack Harvey; film editor, 
Bob Oberbeck. Cast: Florence Lake, Don 
Beddoe, Joycé Lake. 

© Sereen Associates, Inc.; 5Jun52; 
LP1781. 

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