SECRETARY PREFERRED

SECRETARY PREFERRED. (Van Beuren Miniature, no. 5) RKO-Van Beuren Corp. Presented by Radio Pictures. 1932. 1 reel, sd. From a short story in Liberty Magazine by Frederic Arnold Kummer.

Adaptation and direction, William Cowen; screenplay, Ruth Todd, Dick Smith; editor, Vera Wade.

Registration LP2942 No renewal found

Term began: 1932-03-28
Claimant: The Van Beuren Corp
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1959-1961 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1961 (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 1959 or 1960 volume; volumes searched: 1959, 1960, 1961.

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 LP2942.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 213971–213979.

  SECRETARY PREFERRED. (Van Beuren Miniature, no. 5) RKO-Van Beuren
    Corp. Presented by Radio Pictures. 1932. 1 reel, sd. From a short
    story in Liberty Magazine by Frederic Arnold Kummer.

    Credits: Adaptation and direction, William Cowen; screenplay, Ruth
    Todd, Dick Smith; editor, Vera Wade.

    © The Van Beuren Corp.; 28Mar32; LP2942.

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