WAY DOWN SOUTH

WAY DOWN SOUTH. Presented by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. 1939. 63 min. sd.

Producer, Sol Lesser; director, Bernard Vorhaus; original story and screenplay, Clarence Muse, Langston Hughes; film editor, Arthur Hilton; music director, Victor Young.

Registration LP9176 No renewal found

Term began

1939-07-21

Claimant

Bobby Breen Productions, 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.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 263210–263218.

  WAY DOWN SOUTH. Presented by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. 1939. 63 min.
    sd.

    Credits: Producer, Sol Lesser; director, Bernard Vorhaus; original
    story and screenplay, Clarence Muse, Langston Hughes; film editor,
    Arthur Hilton; music director, Victor Young.

    © Bobby Breen Productions, Inc.; 21Jul39; LP9176.

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