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DESPERATE MOMENT

DEMONSTRATION IS SELLING, SEE Demonstrating is selling. DESPERATE MOMENT. British Film Makers, London, Released in the U. S. by Universal International Films. 88 min., sd., b&w, 35mm, Based on the novel of the same title by Martha Albrand [pseud, of Heidi Huberta Freybe Loewengard]

Registration LP3477 Renewed

Term began
1953-05-01
Claimant
British Film Makers, ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE82985 filed 1981-02-09 by Rank Film Distributors, Ltd. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6980461)
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 RE82985 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Rank Film Distributors, Ltd. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-02-09
Original cited
LP3477 / 1953-05-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6980461: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE82985, registered 1981-02-09, for original registration LP3477 published 1953-05-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 3531–3543.

DEMONSTRATION IS SELLING, SEE Demon- 
strating is selling. 


DESPERATE MOMENT. British Film Makers, 
London, Released in the U. S. by Universal 
International Films. 88 min., sd., b&w, 
35mm, Based on the novel of the same title 
by Martha Albrand [pseud, of Heidi Huberta 
Freybe Loewengard] 

© British Film Makers, ltd.; 1May53; 
LP3477. 

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