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WHO KILLED GAIL PRESTON? 1937

WHO KILLED GAIL PRESTON? 1937. 6 reels.

Director, Leon Barsha; screenplay, Robert E. Kent, Henry Taylor.

Registration LP7772 Renewed

Term began
1937-12-29
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp. of California, Ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R370976 filed 1965-10-21 by LP/772. Golumbia Pictures Cc-p (title+window; CCE 1965, OCR line 46248)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2033 (95 years from the 1937 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 R370976 (link: title+window, title similarity 0.83)

Renewal claimant
LP/772. Golumbia Pictures Cc-p (PWH)
Renewal date
1965-10-21
Original cited
None / °9Dec37
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1965: Internet Archive catalogofc19653191213libr, OCR text line 46248
WHO KILLED GAIL PRESTON? A photoplay in 
six reels by Columbia Pictures Corp. 
of California. © °9Dec37; LP/772. 
Golumbia Pictures Cc-p. (PWH); 210ct65; 
R370976. 
WILD WEST DAYS, a series of photoplays 

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 269345–269351.

  WHO KILLED GAIL PRESTON? 1937. 6 reels.

    Credits: Director, Leon Barsha; screenplay, Robert E. Kent, Henry
    Taylor.

    © Columbia Pictures Corp. of California, Ltd.; 29Dec37; LP7772.

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