WOMAN IN THE DARK

WOMAN IN THE DARK. 1934. 8 reels, sd. From the story by Dashiell Hammett.

Associate producer, Burt Kelly; director, Phil Rosen; screenplay, Sada Cowan; additional dialogue, Charles Williams, Marcy Klauber; editor, William Thompson.

Registration LP5104 No renewal found

Term began

1934-11-09

Claimant

RKO Radio Pictures, Inc

Author

Select Productions, Inc., author

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1961-1963 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1963 (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 1961 or 1962 volume; volumes searched: 1961, 1962, 1963.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 274651–274660.

  WOMAN IN THE DARK. 1934. 8 reels, sd. From the story by Dashiell
    Hammett.

    Credits: Associate producer, Burt Kelly; director, Phil Rosen;
    screenplay, Sada Cowan; additional dialogue, Charles Williams, Marcy
    Klauber; editor, William Thompson.

    © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (Select Productions, Inc., author);
    9Nov34; LP5104.

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