DRUMS OF FU MANCHU

Drums of Fu Manchu; episodes 11-15, based on a novel by Sax Rohmer.

Registration LP9742 Renewed

Term began

1940-03-15

Claimant

Republic pictures corp.

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

renewal R423847 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (llm:number+date; CCE 1967, OCR line 38484)

Enters the public domain

1 January 2036 (95 years from the 1940 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 R423847 (link: llm:number+date, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant

—

Renewal date

—

Original cited

None / 15Mar4o0

Source

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1967: Internet Archive catalogofc19673211213libr, OCR text line 38484

6-10. © 15Mar40; 19627. 8Dec67; 
R423840. 
11-15. © 15Mar4o0; L9o742. 8Dec67; 
R423847. 

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: “Serial part '11-15' from a larger work. Original number L9o742 corrected to LP9742 based on pattern and context (L=LP, o=0 misread as o, 9=9, 7=7, 4=4, 2=2). Date 15Mar4o0 corrected to 15Mar40 (1940-03-15). Renewal date 8Dec67 (1967-12-08). Claimant not present in this chunk.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 29213–29216.

Drums of Fu Manchu; episodes 11-15, 
based on a novel by Sax Rohmer. 
© Mar. 15, 1940; L 9742; Republic 
pictures corp., New York, 4573 

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