Public Reel

STRANGER IN TOWN

STRANGER IN TOWN. 1932. 7 reels, sd. Based on the story "Competition" by Carl Erickson.

Director, Erle C. Kenton; screenplay, Carl Erickson, Harvey Thew.

Registration LP3144 Renewed

Term began
1932-07-10
Claimant
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R239926 filed 1959-07-14 by United Artists Associated, Inc (title+window; CCE 1959, OCR line 38894)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2028 (95 years from the 1932 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R239926 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
United Artists Associated, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1959-07-14
Original cited
LZ144 / 10JulZ2
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1959: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3131213li, OCR text line 38894
STRANGER IN TOWN, a photoplay in seven 
reels by Warner Bros. Pictures. 
© 10JulZ2; LZ144. United Artists 
Associated, Inc. (PWH); 14Ju159; 
R239926. 
STUFF ON THE BALL, a motion picture in 

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 233218–233225.

  STRANGER IN TOWN. 1932. 7 reels, sd. Based on the story "Competition"
    by Carl Erickson.

    Credits: Director, Erle C. Kenton; screenplay, Carl Erickson, Harvey
    Thew.

    © Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 10Jul32; LP3144.

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