Public Reel

THE THIN MAN

THE THIN MAN. 1934. 10 reels, sd., b&w. From the novel by Dashiell Hammett.

Producer, Hunt Stromberg; director, W. S. Van Dyke; screenplay, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich; film editor, Robert J. Kern; music score, William Axt.

Registration LP4745 Renewed

Term began
1934-05-24
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R277211 filed 1961-06-06 by DiTus. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, Inc (title+window; CCE 1961, OCR line 26947)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2030 (95 years from the 1934 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 R277211 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
DiTus. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1961-06-06
Original cited
None / 24mMay34
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1961: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3151213libr, OCR text line 26947
THE THIN MAN, a photoplay in ten reels 
by Metro-Gold -Mayer Corp. 
© 24mMay34; DiTus. Metro-Goldwyn- 
Mayer, Inc. (PWH); 6Jun61; R277211. 
THIRTY DAY PRINCESS, a photoplay in 
eight reels by Paramount Productions. 

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 242472–242480.

  THE THIN MAN. 1934. 10 reels, sd., b&w. From the novel by Dashiell
    Hammett.

    Credits: Producer, Hunt Stromberg; director, W. S. Van Dyke;
    screenplay, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich; film editor, Robert J.
    Kern; music score, William Axt.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.; 24May34; LP4745.

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