THE RAT

THE RAT. London Film Studios, England. Presented by Imperator Film Productions, Ltd. 1938. 8 reels, sd. From the story by Ivor Novello and Constance Collier.

Director, Jack Raymond; story, Hans Gulder Rameau; scenario, Marjorie Gaffney; dialogue, Miles Malleson; music director, Muir Mathieson; editor, Peggy Hennessey.

Registration LP7840 No renewal found

Term began

1938-01-21

Claimant

RKO Radio Pictures, Inc

Author

Imperator Film Productions, Ltd., author

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1965-1967 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1967 (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 1965 or 1966 volume; volumes searched: 1965, 1966, 1967.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 198537–198547.

  THE RAT. London Film Studios, England. Presented by Imperator Film
    Productions, Ltd. 1938. 8 reels, sd. From the story by Ivor Novello
    and Constance Collier.

    Credits: Director, Jack Raymond; story, Hans Gulder Rameau;
    scenario, Marjorie Gaffney; dialogue, Miles Malleson; music
    director, Muir Mathieson; editor, Peggy Hennessey.

    © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (Imperator Film Productions, Ltd.,
    author); 21Jan38; LP7840.

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