CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA. 1937. 7 reels, sd. Based on the character created by Earl Derr Biggers.
Director, H. Bruce Humberstone; story, Bess Meredyth; screenplay, Scott Darling, Charles S. Belden; music director, Samuel Kaylin.
Registration LP7043 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1937-01-08
- Claimant
- Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1964-1966 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1966 (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 1964 or 1965 volume; volumes searched: 1964, 1965, 1966.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 34901–34910.
CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA. 1937. 7 reels, sd. Based on the character
created by Earl Derr Biggers.
Credits: Director, H. Bruce Humberstone; story, Bess Meredyth;
screenplay, Scott Darling, Charles S. Belden; music director, Samuel
Kaylin.
© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 8Jan37; LP7043. (See also
Charlie Chan at the Opera; 5Dec36; LP7256.)
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