Public Reel

CITY IN DARKNESS

City in darkness; based on a play by Gina Kaus and Ladislaus Fodor, based on the character Charlie Chan created by Earl Derr Biggers.

Registration LP9341 Renewed

Term began
1939-12-01
Claimant
Twentieth century-Fox film corp.
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R417120 filed 1967-09-07 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp (number+date; CCE 1967, OCR line 38166)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2035 (95 years from the 1939 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 R417120 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.26)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1967-09-07
Original cited
L9341 / 1Dec39
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1967: Internet Archive catalogofc19673211213libr, OCR text line 38166
FOOLS WHO MADE HISTORY. 
CHARLIE CHAN IN CITY IN DARKNESS, a 
photoplay in eight reels by Twentieth 
Century-Fox Film Corp. © 1Dec39; 
L9341. Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
Corp. (PWH); 7Sep67; R417120. 
CHARLIE CHAN IN PANAMA, a photoplay in 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 2496–2502.

City in darkness; based on a play by 
Gina Kaus and Ladislaus Fodor, 
based on the character Charlie Chan 
created by Earl Derr Biggers. © 
Dec. 1, 1939; 2 c. and descr. Jan. 15, 
1940; L 9341; Twentieth century-Fox 
film corp., New York. 336 

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