Public Reel

PHANTOM OF CHINATOWN

Phantom of Chinatown.

Registration LP10160 No renewal found

Term began
1940-11-18
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 LP10160.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1941, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig141libr (OCR text), lines 4046–4048.

Phantom of Chinatown. © Nov. 18, 
1940; L 10160; Monogram pictures 
corp., Hollywood, Calif. 634 

Copies on the Internet Archive

ItemYearDownloadsCollection
Phantom of Chinatown1940123,522Comedy_Films, feature_films
Phantom of Chinatown194025,946feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Phantom of Chinatown194014,767feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Phantom of Chinatown (1940)1940215feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Phantom Of Chinatown (1940)1940138opensource_movies, fav-irishhistoryfan

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