THE MASK AND DESTINY
} ae SHUZENJI MONOGATARI; or, THE MASK AND DESTINY. Shochiku Co., Tokyo. Released in the U. S. by Stratford Pictures Corp. 103 min., sd., color, 35 mm. Eastman-Shochiku color. In Japanese, with English titles added. Based on the stage play by Kido Okamoto
Registration LP7123 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1956-10-04
- Claimant
- Stratford Pictures Corp
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1983-1985 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1985 (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 1983 or 1984 volume; volumes searched: 1983, 1984, 1985.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1956, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3101213li (OCR text), lines 40000–40013.
MU62h1. } ae SHUZENJI MONOGATARI; or, THE MASK AND DESTINY. Shochiku Co., Tokyo. Released in the U. S. by Stratford Pictures Corp. 103 min., sd., color, 35 mm. Eastman-Shochiku color. In Japanese, with English titles added. Based on the stage play by Kido Okamoto. © Stratford Pictures Corp.; hOct56; LP7123.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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