SLOW POISON

SLOW POISON. (Rufftown Comedies) 1931. 2 reels, sd., b&w. From the "Rufftown Stories" by Arthur (Bugs) Baer.

Supervision, Lew Lipton; director, Harry Sweet; adaptation, Ralph Ceder; film editor, John Link.

Registration LP2563 No renewal found

Term began: 1931-10-19
Claimant: RKO Pathe Distributing Corp
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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 222512–222519.

  SLOW POISON. (Rufftown Comedies) 1931. 2 reels, sd., b&w. From the
    "Rufftown Stories" by Arthur (Bugs) Baer.

    Credits: Supervision, Lew Lipton; director, Harry Sweet; adaptation,
    Ralph Ceder; film editor, John Link.

    © RKO Pathe Distributing Corp.; 19Oct31; LP2563.

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