Public Reel

UNEXPECTED GUEST

UNEXPECTED GUEST, William Boyd Productions, sd., b&w, 16mm

Registration LP2831 No renewal found

Term began
1947-12-31
Claimant
William Boyd Productions, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1974-1976 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since
1 January 1976 (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 1974 or 1975 volume; volumes searched: 1974, 1975, 1976.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP2831.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 45055–45058.

UNEXPECTED GUEST, William Boyd Pro- 
ductions, sd., b&w, 16mm, 
© William Boyd Productions, inc.; 31Dec47; 
LP2831. 

Copies on the Internet Archive

ItemYearDownloadsCollection
Unexpected Guest (1947)1947113opensource_movies, fav-darkdanzig

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