SHERLOCK HOLMES' FATAL HOUR

SHERLOCK HOLMES' FATAL HOUR. 1931. 8 reels, sd. Adapted from "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Director, Leslie S. Hiscott; screen adaptation, Cyril Twyford; editor, Jack Harris.

Registration LP2411 No renewal found

Term began

1931-07-10

Claimant

First Division Pictures, Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1958-1960 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1960 (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 1958 or 1959 volume; volumes searched: 1958, 1959, 1960.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 216945–216952.

  SHERLOCK HOLMES' FATAL HOUR. 1931. 8 reels, sd. Adapted from "The
    Final Problem" and "The Empty House" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    Credits: Director, Leslie S. Hiscott; screen adaptation, Cyril
    Twyford; editor, Jack Harris.

    © First Division Pictures, Inc.; 10Jul31; LP2411.

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