Public Reel

WHISTLING IN THE DARK

WHISTLING IN THE DARK. 1933. 8 reels, sd., b&w. Based on the play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter.

Direction and screenplay, Elliott Nugent; film editor, Ben Lewis.

Registration LP3608 Renewed

Term began
1933-01-30
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R258517 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (llm:number+title; CCE 1960, OCR line 20894)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2029 (95 years from the 1933 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 R258517 (link: llm:number+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Re54108
Original cited
L3608 / 30Jan35
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1960: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3141213libr, OCR text line 20894
< d z ‘ ng Corp. eb33; FE ew's, 
eae MP3421. 22Mar60; eee MP3735. 17Jun60; Inc. (PWH); 25Feb60; R252675. 
50. © 17Jun52; mMPS44e. 22Mar60; 95. © 22Nov32; MP3736. 17Jun60; WHISTLING IN THE DARK, a photoplay in 
R254107. R258516. eight reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 
51. © 21Jun52; MPS443. 22Mar60; 96. © 25Nov32; MP3737. 17Jun60; Distributing Corp. © 30Jan35; L3608. 
Re54108. R258517. Loew's, Inc. (PWH); 2Feb60; R251419. 
meeco aa Pale 5 aes Bez (obs et ioun6o; THE WHITE SISTER, a photoplay in twelve 
R 3 R258518. : p 
3. © 287 2; MPZ482, 22Mar60; . a reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distrib- 
5 onan ta 3 eo peeouebecee: MP3762. 17Jun60; Heras (roa 0 CaN Eerie NET Eee 

This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “The renewal record for R258517 is interleaved with surrounding lines. The original registration is '© 30Jan35; L3608' (LP3608). The renewal claimant and date are taken from the line 'Loew's, Inc. (PWH); 2Feb60; R251419' which appears to be part of the same record, but the renewal number R251419 is different. However, the pattern shows that R258517 is associated with the original L3608, and the claimant/date are likely from the same block. The title 'WHISTLING IN THE DARK' is from the line above, which is part of the same record context.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 268622–268629.

  WHISTLING IN THE DARK. 1933. 8 reels, sd., b&w. Based on the play by
    Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter.

    Credits: Direction and screenplay, Elliott Nugent; film editor, Ben
    Lewis.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 30Jan33; LP3608.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Not searched yet.

Search the Internet Archive yourself · JSON