SVENGALI

SVENGALI. 1931. 9 reels, sd. Based on the novel by George Louis DuMaurier.

Director, Archie Mayo; screenplay and dialogue, J. Grubb Alexander.

Registration LP2180 No renewal found

Term began: 1931-04-29
Claimant: Warner Bros. 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.

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 LP2180.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 236287–236294.

  SVENGALI. 1931. 9 reels, sd. Based on the novel by George Louis
    DuMaurier.

    Credits: Director, Archie Mayo; screenplay and dialogue, J. Grubb
    Alexander.

    © Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 29Apr31; LP2180.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Svengali	1931	148,704	SciFi_Horror, feature_films
Svengali (Colourised)	1931	271	opensource_movies, community
Svengali (1931)	1931	35	television_inbox, television

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