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.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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