PHANTOM FROM SPACE

n from outer-space who is responsible for several murders and explosions. Credits: Producer and director, W. Lee Wilder; story, Myles Wilder; screenplay, Bill Raynor, Myles Wilder; music, William Lava; film editor, George Gale. Cast: Ted Cooper, Rudolph Anders, Noreen Nash, James Seay, Harry Landers

Registration LP2564 No renewal found

Term began: 1953-02-27
Claimant: Planet Filmplays, 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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 16235–16246.

capture a faceless man from outer-space 
who is responsible for several murders and 
explosions. 

Credits: Producer and director, W. Lee 
Wilder; story, Myles Wilder; screenplay, 
Bill Raynor, Myles Wilder; music, William 
Lava; film editor, George Gale. Cast: Ted 
Cooper, Rudolph Anders, Noreen Nash, James 
Seay, Harry Landers. 

© Planet Filmplays, inc.; 27Feb53; LP2564.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Phantom From Space	1953	184,606	film_scifi, feature_films
Phantom From Space -1953- Colorized	1953	10,218	opensource_movies, community
Phantom from Space (1953)	1953	1,657	SciFi_Horror, feature_films
Phantom from Space (1953)	1953	466	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Phantom from Space	1953	360	movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers

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