Public Reel

DINNER PARTY

&w, 16mm. Summary: A drama showing the failure of a predatory female to wreck the life of a brilliant architect who once had a predilection for alcohol. Credits: Producer, Rudy E. Abel; director, Peter Godfrey; teleplay, Zoe Akins; editor, Bernard Matis. Cast: John Howard, Virginia Grey, Viola Keats

Registration LP2330 No renewal found

Term began
1953-02-05
Claimant
Screen Associates, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1980-1982 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1982 (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 4966–4979.

3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. 

Summary: A drama showing the failure 
of a predatory female to wreck the life of a 
brilliant architect who once had a predilec- 
tion for alcohol. 

Credits: Producer, Rudy E. Abel; direc- 
tor, Peter Godfrey; teleplay, Zoe Akins; 
editor, Bernard Matis. Cast: John Howard, 
Virginia Grey, Viola Keats. 

© Screen Associates, inc.; 5Feb53 (in 
notice: 1952); LP2330. 

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