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THE DESPERATE HOURS

DE SOTO TAKES A FORWARD LOOK AT MERCURY (Filmstrip) De Soto Division. Made by Ross Roy, Inc. 89 fr., bkw, 35 mm. © Chrysler Corp.; 11Nov55; JPl.035. THE DESPERATE HOURS. Paramount Pictures Corp. 112 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. VistaVision. Based on the novel and play by Joseph Hayes

Registration LP581 Renewed

Term began
1955-11-01
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE168140 filed 1983-05-19 by Paramount Pictures Corporation (date+title; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7065616)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2051 (95 years from the 1955 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 RE168140 (link: date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Paramount Pictures Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1983-05-19
Original cited
LP5481 / 1955-11-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7065616: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE168140, registered 1983-05-19, for original registration LP5481 published 1955-11-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1955, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig391213lib (OCR text), lines 32665–32679.

DE SOTO TAKES A FORWARD LOOK AT 
MERCURY (Filmstrip) De Soto Divi- 
sion. Made by Ross Roy, Inc. 

89 fr., bkw, 35 mm. 
© Chrysler Corp.; 11Nov55; JPl.035. 


THE DESPERATE HOURS. Paramount 
Pictures Corp. 112 min., sd., b&w, 
35 mm. VistaVision. Based on the 
novel and play by Joseph Hayes. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 
1Nov55; LP581. 

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