Public Reel

HELL IS A CITY

HELL IS A CITY. Hammer Film Productions, Eng. Released in the U. S. by Columbia Pictures Corp. 96 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. Megascope. Based on the novel by Maurice Procter

Registration LP19049 Renewed

Term began
1960-11-01
Claimant
Hammer Film Productions, Ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE328358 filed 1987-01-27 by Cannon Screen Entertainment, Ltd. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7224802)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2056 (95 years from the 1960 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 RE328358 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Cannon Screen Entertainment, Ltd. (PWH)
Renewal date
1987-01-27
Original cited
LP19049 / 1960-11-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7224802: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE328358, registered 1987-01-27, for original registration LP19049 published 1960-11-01.

Renewal RE340332 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Hammer Film Productions, Ltd. (PWH)
Renewal date
1987-03-11
Original cited
LP19049 / 1960-11-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7236776: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE340332, registered 1987-03-11, for original registration LP19049 published 1960-11-01.

Renewal RE351852 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Hammer Film Productions, Ltd. (PWH)
Renewal date
1987-09-08
Original cited
LP19049 / 1960-11-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7248294: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE351852, registered 1987-09-08, for original registration LP19049 published 1960-11-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1961, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3151213libr (OCR text), lines 10177–10186.

HELL IS A CITY. Hammer Film Produc- 


tions, Eng. Released in the U. S. 
by Columbia Pictures Corp. 96 min., 
sd., b&w, 35 mm. Megascope. Based 
on the novel by Maurice Procter. 

© Hammer Film Productions, Ltd.; 
1Nov60 (in notice: 1959); LP19049. 

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