THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL

THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL. 1939. 11 reels, sd. From a novel by Bertram Millhauser and Beulah Marie Dix.

Director, Busby Berkeley; screenplay, Sig Herzig; music, Max Steiner.

Registration LP8592 No renewal found

Term began: 1939-01-04
Claimant: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1966-1968 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1968 (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 1966 or 1967 volume; volumes searched: 1966, 1967, 1968.

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 LP8592.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 242227–242234.

  THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL. 1939. 11 reels, sd. From a novel by Bertram
    Millhauser and Beulah Marie Dix.

    Credits: Director, Busby Berkeley; screenplay, Sig Herzig; music,
    Max Steiner.

    © Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 4Jan39; LP8592.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
They Made Me a Criminal	1939	305,477	Film_Noir, feature_films
They Made Me a Criminal	1939	6,862	Film_Noir, feature_films
They Made Me A Criminal (1939)	1939	919	opensource_movies, community
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)	1939	343	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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