PRISON WITHOUT BARS
PRISON WITHOUT BARS. Presented by Alexander Korda. Released through United Artists. 1938. 80 min., sd. Adapted from a play by E. and O. Eis, Gina Kaus and Hans Wilhelm. After the film "Prison sans Barreaux" produced by Arnold Pressburger.
Producer, Alexander Korda; director, Brian Desmond Hurst; original story, Henri Jeanon; scenario, Arthur Wimperis; dialogue, Margaret Kennedy; supervising editor, William Hornbeck; film editor, Charles Crichton; music director, Muir Mathieson; music score, John Greenwood.
Registration LP8835 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1938-12-07
- Claimant
- London Film Productions, Ltd
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1965-1967 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1967 (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 1965 or 1966 volume; volumes searched: 1965, 1966, 1967.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 193865–193877.
PRISON WITHOUT BARS. Presented by Alexander Korda. Released through
United Artists. 1938. 80 min., sd. Adapted from a play by E. and O.
Eis, Gina Kaus and Hans Wilhelm. After the film "Prison sans
Barreaux" produced by Arnold Pressburger.
Credits: Producer, Alexander Korda; director, Brian Desmond Hurst;
original story, Henri Jeanon; scenario, Arthur Wimperis; dialogue,
Margaret Kennedy; supervising editor, William Hornbeck; film editor,
Charles Crichton; music director, Muir Mathieson; music score, John
Greenwood.
© London Film Productions, Ltd.; 7Dec38; LP8835.
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