KILDARE’S STRANGE CASE

Kildare’s strange case; based on an original story by Max Brand and Willis Goldbeck.

Registration LP9547 No renewal found

Term began: 1940-04-09
Claimant: Loew’s, inc., New York. rat Pt Donald’s dog laundry
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1967-1969 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1969 (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 1967 or 1968 volume; volumes searched: 1967, 1968, 1969.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP9547.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 17328–17336.

Dr. Kildare’s strange case; based on an 
original story by Max Brand and 
Willis Goldbeck. © Apr. 9, 1940; 
L 9547; Loew’s, inc., New York. 

rat Pt 


Donald’s dog laundry. © Feb. 15, 1940:

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940; smallest download)	1940	1,907	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case	1940	1,705	movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers

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