TALL, DARK, AND DEAD
1953. 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on the Craig Kennedy stories created by Arthur B. Reeve. Summary: A television mystery about Craig Kennedy, criminologist. Credits: Producer and director, Adrian Weiss; story, Ande Lamb; film editor, Michael Luciano. Cast: Donald Woods, Sydney Mason, Lewis Wilson
Registration LP2331 Renewed
- Term began
- 1953-02-17
- Claimant
- Adrian Weiss Productions
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE85873 filed 1981-01-05 by Weiss Global Enterprises (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6983349)
- 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 RE85873 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Weiss Global Enterprises (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1981-01-05
- Original cited
- LP2331 / 1953-02-17
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6983349: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE85873, registered 1981-01-05, for original registration LP2331 published 1953-02-17.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 20486–20499.
Productions, 1953. 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on the Craig Kennedy stories created by Arthur B. Reeve. Summary: A television mystery about Craig Kennedy, criminologist. Credits: Producer and director, Adrian Weiss; story, Ande Lamb; film editor, Michael Luciano. Cast: Donald Woods, Sydney Mason, Lewis Wilson. © Adrian Weiss Productions; 17Feb53 (in notice: 1952); LP2331.
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