TRAPPED
TRAPPED. (Shadow Detective Series, no. 2) 1931. 2 reels. From the story "The Cat's Paw" by Ray Humphreys.
Director, Kurt Neumann; adaptation, Kurt Neumann, Robert F. Hill.
Registration LP2499 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1931-09-21
- Claimant
- Universal Pictures Corp
- 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.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 249626–249633.
TRAPPED. (Shadow Detective Series, no. 2) 1931. 2 reels. From the
story "The Cat's Paw" by Ray Humphreys.
Credits: Director, Kurt Neumann; adaptation, Kurt Neumann, Robert F.
Hill.
© Universal Pictures Corp.; 21Sep31; LP2499.
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