THE HITCH-HIKER

lude the police. Credits: Producer, Collier Young; director, Ida Lupino; screenplay, Collier Young, Ida Lupino; adaptation, Robert Joseph; music, Leith Stevens; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Douglas Stewart. Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, Jose Torvay, Sam Hayes

Registration LP2463 No renewal found

Term began

1953-03-13

Claimant

RKO Radio Pictures, 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.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1980 or 1981 volume; volumes searched: 1980, 1981, 1982.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 8180–8191.

to help him elude the police. 

Credits: Producer, Collier Young; direc- 
tor, Ida Lupino; screenplay, Collier Young, 
Ida Lupino; adaptation, Robert Joseph; music, 
Leith Stevens; music director, C. Bakaleini- 
koff; film editor, Douglas Stewart. Cast: 
Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William 
Talman, Jose Torvay, Sam Hayes. 

© RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; 13Mar53; 
LP2463. 

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