Public Reel

THE SIGN OF FOUR

THE SIGN OF FOUR. Presented by World Wide Pictures. 1932. 7 reels, sd. Adapted from the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Producer, Rowland V. Lee; director, Graham Cutts; screenplay, W. P. Lipscomb.

Registration LP3512 No renewal found

Term began
1932-08-14
Claimant
Associated Talking Pictures, Ltd
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 LP3512.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 218788–218795.

  THE SIGN OF FOUR. Presented by World Wide Pictures. 1932. 7 reels, sd.
    Adapted from the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

    Credits: Producer, Rowland V. Lee; director, Graham Cutts;
    screenplay, W. P. Lipscomb.

    © Associated Talking Pictures, Ltd.; 14Aug32; LP3512.

Copies on the Internet Archive

ItemYearDownloadsCollection
The Sign Of Four1932113,254feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
The Sign Of Four19323,340feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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