Public Reel

CALIGARI

about a mountebank monk who exerted a mysterious and tragic influence over a somnambulist. Credits: Producer, Erich Pommer; director, Robert Wiene; story and scenario, Karl Mayer, Hans Janowitz; photographer, Karl Freund. Cast: Werner Kraus, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Hans Feher, Hans v. Twardowsky

Registration LP1916 Renewed

Term began
1952-08-08
Claimant
on new main, credit, and insert titles, foreword, end title, music synchronized to picture and sound effects
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE72694 filed 1980-08-26 by Gothic Productions, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6970170)
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 RE72694 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.31)

Renewal claimant
Gothic Productions, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-08-26
Original cited
LP1916 / 1952-08-08
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6970170: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE72694, registered 1980-08-26, for original registration LP1916 published 1952-08-08.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 36489–36504.

relives an eleventh century myth about a 
mountebank monk who exerted a mysterious 
and tragic influence over a somnambulist. 

Credits: Producer, Erich Pommer; direc- 
tor, Robert Wiene; story and scenario, Karl 
Mayer, Hans Janowitz; photographer, Karl 
Freund. Cast: Werner Kraus, Conrad 
Veidt, Lil Dagover, Hans Feher, Hans v. 
Twardowsky. 

© on new main, credit, and insert titles, 
foreword, end title, music synchronized to 
picture and sound effects; The Attorney 
General of the United States; 8Aug52; 
LP1916. Appl. states prev. reg. 29Apr21, 

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