POWDER BOX SMUGGLING STORY
lieutenant apprehends smupglers who are bringing dope and jewels into the country in powder boxes. Credits: Producer, Jean Yarbrough; director, George Archainbaud; story, David Victor, Jackson Gillis; screenplay, Jackson Gillis; film editor, Otho Lovering. Cast: George Raft, Jean Willes, Lyle Talbot
Registration LP1968 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1952-07-03
- Claimant
- Cosman Productions, 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 48397–48414.
Summary: A police lieutenant apprehends smupglers who are bringing dope and jewels into the country in powder boxes. CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES July—Dec. Credits: Producer, Jean Yarbrough; direc- tor, George Archainbaud; story, David Vic- tor, Jackson Gillis; screenplay, Jackson Gillis; film editor, Otho Lovering. Cast: George Raft, Jean Willes, Lyle Talbot. © Cosman Productions, Inc.; 3Jul52; LP1968.
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