THE DRUM
ary: An impressionistic fantasy about a young dancer and a drum, Credits: Producer and director, Richard Serly Brummer; authors, Richard Serly Brummer, Allan F, deForest; music composer, Lanoue Davenport; percussionist, Al Howard; cinematographer, Allen Franklin deForest. Cast: Al Fosse, Genii Prior
Registration LP1848 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1952-07-21
- Claimant
- Brummer de Forest Studios, 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.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 38808–38819.
Summary: An impressionistic fantasy about a young dancer and a drum, Credits: Producer and director, Richard Serly Brummer; authors, Richard Serly Brummer, Allan F, deForest; music com- poser, Lanoue Davenport; percussionist, Al Howard; cinematographer, Allen Franklin deForest. Cast: Al Fosse, Genii Prior. © Brummer de Forest Studios, Inc.; 21Jul52; LP1848,.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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