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SHORT CUT TO HELL

SHORT CUT TO HELL. Paramount Pictures Corp. 87 min., sd.e, b&w, 35 mm. VistaVision. Based on a screenplay by W. R. Burnett, from a novel by Graham Greene

Registration LP9253 Renewed

Term began
1957-09-05
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE252133 filed 1985-06-10 by Paramount Pictures Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7148781)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2053 (95 years from the 1957 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 RE252133 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Paramount Pictures Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1985-06-10
Original cited
LP9253 / 1957-09-05
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7148781: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE252133, registered 1985-06-10, for original registration LP9253 published 1957-09-05.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1957, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li (OCR text), lines 41443–41452.

SHORT CUT TO HELL. Paramount Pictures 


Corp. 87 min., sd.e, b&w, 35 mm. 
VistaVision. Based on a screenplay 
by W. R. Burnett, from a novel by 
Graham Greene. 
© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 

5Sep57; LP9253. 

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