Public Reel

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS

The last dark step

Registration LP16696 Renewed

Term began
1959-02-08
Claimant
Shamley Productions
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE348740 filed 1987-09-17 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7245183)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2055 (95 years from the 1959 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 RE348740 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1987-09-17
Original cited
LP16696 / 1959-02-08
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7245183: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE348740, registered 1987-09-17, for original registration LP16696 published 1959-02-08.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1960, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3141213libr (OCR text), lines 27139–27140.

The last dark step. © 8Feb59; 
LP16696. 

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