DOOMED TO DIE

Doomed to die; based on the James Lee Wong series by Hugh Wiley.

Registration LP9855 No renewal found

Term began: 1940-07-19
Claimant: Monogram pictures corp.
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 LP9855.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 36023–36026.

Doomed to die; based on the James Lee 
Wong series by Hugh Wiley. © 
July 19, 1940; L 9855; Monogram pic- 
tures corp., New York. 5619

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Doomed to Die	1940	126,805	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Doomed to Die	1940	30,557	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Doomed to Die	1940	23,463	Comedy_Films, feature_films
Doomed to Die	1940	7,728	Film_Noir, feature_films
Doomed to Die (1940)	1940	118	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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