Public Reel

HOUSE OF WAX

s of his murder victims encased in wax. Setting: New York City in 1900. Credits: Producer, Bryan Foy; director, Andre de Toth; story, Charles Beldon; screenplay, Crane Wilbur; music, David Buttolph; film editor, Rudi Fehr. Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni

Registration LP2596 Renewed

Term began
1953-05-21
Claimant
Warner Bros. Pictures, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE82028 filed 1981-01-27 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6979504)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2049 (95 years from the 1953 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal RE82028 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-27
Original cited
LP2596 / 1953-05-21
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6979504: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE82028, registered 1981-01-27, for original registration LP2596 published 1953-05-21.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 8482–8493.

the bodies of his murder victims encased in 
wax. Setting: New York City in 1900. 

Credits: Producer, Bryan Foy; director, 
Andre de Toth; story, Charles Beldon; 
screenplay, Crane Wilbur; music, David 
Buttolph; film editor, Rudi Fehr. Cast: 
Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, 
Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni. 

© Warner Bros. Pictures, inc.; 21May53; 
LP2596. 

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