SECRET AGENT

SECRET AGENT. 1936. 9 reels, sd. From the play by Campbell Dixon based on the novel "Ashenden" by W. Somerset Maugham.

Director, Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay, Charles Bennett; dialogue, Ian Hay [pseud. of John Hay Beith]; continuity, Alma Reville; additional dialogue, Jesse Lasky, Jr.; editor, Charles Frend; music director, Louis Levy.

Registration LP6571 No renewal found

Term began: 1936-05-11
Claimant: Gaumont British Picture Corp. of America
Author: Gaumont British Picture Corp., Ltd., author
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1963-1965 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1965 (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 1963 or 1964 volume; volumes searched: 1963, 1964, 1965.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP6571.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 213389–213399.

  SECRET AGENT. 1936. 9 reels, sd. From the play by Campbell Dixon based
    on the novel "Ashenden" by W. Somerset Maugham.

    Credits: Director, Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay, Charles Bennett;
    dialogue, Ian Hay [pseud. of John Hay Beith]; continuity, Alma
    Reville; additional dialogue, Jesse Lasky, Jr.; editor, Charles
    Frend; music director, Louis Levy.

    © Gaumont British Picture Corp. of America (Gaumont British Picture
    Corp., Ltd., author); 11May36; LP6571.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Secret Agent	1936	394,128	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Secret Agent (1936)	1936	1,680	opensource_movies, community
Secret Agent X-9 (1937)	1937	1,128	cliffhangers, moviesandfilms
Secret Agent (1936)	1936	940	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Secret Agent	1936	85	movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers

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