Circumstantial Evidence

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. 1935. 7 reels, sd.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1964, on the registry's reading: registration LP5482 of 1935 by Chesterfield Motion Picture Corp was not renewed in the volumes searched.

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Director, Charles Lamont; story, Tom Terriss; adaptation and screenplay, Ewart Adamson.

Registration LP5482 No renewal found

Term began: 1935-04-18
Claimant: Chesterfield Motion Picture Corp
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1962-1964 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
Conditional date: 1 January 1964, if no renewal was filed. The automated search result requires verification against the linked volumes.

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An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1962 or 1963 volume; volumes searched: 1962, 1963, 1964.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 37480–37486.

  CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. 1935. 7 reels, sd.

    Credits: Director, Charles Lamont; story, Tom Terriss; adaptation
    and screenplay, Ewart Adamson.

    © Chesterfield Motion Picture Corp.; 18Apr35; LP5482.

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Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
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Circumstantial Evidence	1935	779	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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