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advertising executive to aid him in exposing a thief who has joined an Austrian mountain-climbing party in an effort to escape to Switzerland with stolen securities. Credits: Producer and director, Gene Martel; story and screenplay, George Bellak; music, Herbert Jarezyk; film editor, Wolfgang Becker

Registration LP2683 No renewal found

Term began
1993-05-28
Claimant
Princess Pictures, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 2020-2022 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 2022 (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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 3340–3352.

A policeman induces a young advertising 
executive to aid him in exposing a thief who 
has joined an Austrian mountain-climbing 
party in an effort to escape to Switzerland 
with stolen securities. 

Credits: Producer and director, Gene 
Martel; story and screenplay, George Bellak; 
music, Herbert Jarezyk; film editor, Wolf- 
gang Becker. 

© Princess Pictures, inc.; 28May93; 
LP2683. 

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