X MARKS THE SPOT

X MARKS THE SPOT. 1931. 8 reels, sd.

Producer, Sam Bischoff; director, Erle C. Kenton; story, Warren B. Duff, Gordon Kahn; continuity, F. Hugh Herbert; film editor, Arthur Huffsmith.

Registration LP3166 No renewal found

Term began

1931-11-29

Claimant

Tiffany Productions of California, Inc., Ltd

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 276975–276982.

  X MARKS THE SPOT. 1931. 8 reels, sd.

    Credits: Producer, Sam Bischoff; director, Erle C. Kenton; story,
    Warren B. Duff, Gordon Kahn; continuity, F. Hugh Herbert; film
    editor, Arthur Huffsmith.

    © Tiffany Productions of California, Inc., Ltd.; 29Nov31; LP3166.

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