A Shriek in the Night

A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT. 1933. 8 reels, sd.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1962, on the registry's reading: registration LP3785 of 1933 by Allied Pictures Corp was not renewed in the volumes searched.

A frame from the Archive's own thumbnails of its copy A_Shriek_in_the_Night, chosen automatically. This copy has not been through the shot atlas yet; when it has, its frames, transcript and annotated beats appear here.

Finding revision b21fb2cf, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Director, Albert Ray; story, Kurt Kempler; screenplay, Frances Hyland.

Registration LP3785 No renewal found

Term began: 1933-04-07
Claimant: Allied Pictures Corp
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1960-1962 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
Conditional date: 1 January 1962, if no renewal was filed. The automated search result requires verification against the linked volumes.

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An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1960 or 1961 volume; volumes searched: 1960, 1961, 1962.

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 LP3785.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 218533–218539.

  A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT. 1933. 8 reels, sd.

    Credits: Director, Albert Ray; story, Kurt Kempler; screenplay,
    Frances Hyland.

    © Allied Pictures Corp.; 7Apr33; LP3785.

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Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
A Shriek in the Night	1933	73,624	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
A Shriek in the Night	1933	28,597	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
A Shriek in the Night (1933)	1933	290	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
A Shriek in the Night (1933; smallest download)	1933	33	opensource_movies

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