THE ZERO HOUR

THE ZERO HOUR. 1939. 7 reels, sd.

Associate producer, Sol C. Siegel; director, Sidney Salkow; original screenplay, Garrett Fort; film editor, William Morgan; music director, Cy Feuer.

Registration LP8945 No renewal found

Term began

1939-05-26

Claimant

Republic Pictures Corp

Author

Republic Productions, Inc., author

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 279067–279075.

  THE ZERO HOUR. 1939. 7 reels, sd.

    Credits: Associate producer, Sol C. Siegel; director, Sidney Salkow;
    original screenplay, Garrett Fort; film editor, William Morgan;
    music director, Cy Feuer.

    © Republic Pictures Corp. (Republic Productions, Inc., author);
    26May39; LP8945.

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