Public Reel

11, 1953

MAN AGAINST CRIME, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co, Made by Pathescope Productions, 3 reels each, sd,, b&w, 16mm, © R. J. Reynolds Tocacco Co, Oct, 11, 1953. Death wears lead shoes

Registration LP3037 No renewal found

Term began
1953-10-18
Claimant
110ct53
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, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 7518–7526.

MAN AGAINST CRIME, R. J. Reynolds 
Tobacco Co, Made by Pathescope Produc- 
tions, 3 reels each, sd,, b&w, 16mm, 
© R. J. Reynolds Tocacco Co, 


Oct, 11, 1953. Death wears lead shoes, 
© 110ct53; LP3191. (See also Man against 
crime, Oct. 18, 1953; 18Oct53; LP3037) 

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