Public Reel

BUNKER BEAN

BUNKER BEAN. 1936. 7 reels, sd. From the play by Lee Wilson Dodd, based on the novel by Harry Leon Wilson.

Associate producer, William Sistrom; directors, William Hamilton, Edward Killy; screenplay, Edmund North, James Gow, Dorothy Yost.

Registration LP6433 Renewed

Term began
1936-06-22
Claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R325243 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (number+year; CCE 1963, OCR line 48980)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2032 (95 years from the 1936 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 R325243 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
LP6433 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1963: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3171213libr, OCR text line 48980
BUNKER BEAN, 
by RKO Radio Pictures. 
LP6433. RKO General, 
8Nov63; R325243. 
BURNING GOLD, a photoplay in six reels 
by Republic Pictures Corp. 

Low confidence: the original date in this record is unreadable, so the link rests on the number and the renewal year.

Renewal (link: llm:number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
Original cited
None / 22Jun36
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1963: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3171213libr, OCR text line 48974
80ct63; R3B23573. 
a photoplay in seven reels 
© 22Jun36; 
Inc. (PWH); 
BUNKER BEAN, 
by RKO Radio Pictures. 

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: “Title and claimant reconstructed from interleaved OCR lines. Original number LP6433 and renewal number R325243 are clearly legible in the surrounding text.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 28103–28111.

  BUNKER BEAN. 1936. 7 reels, sd. From the play by Lee Wilson Dodd,
    based on the novel by Harry Leon Wilson.

    Credits: Associate producer, William Sistrom; directors, William
    Hamilton, Edward Killy; screenplay, Edmund North, James Gow, Dorothy
    Yost.

    © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 22Jun36; LP6433.

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