Public Reel

CURSE OF CAPISTRANO

Mark of Zorro; based on the story The curse of Capistrano, by Johnston Mc- Culley.

Registration LP10310 Renewed

Term began
1940-11-08
Claimant
Twentieth century-Fox film corp.
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R441044 filed 1968-08-22 by Twentieth Sora Film Corp (llm:number+date; CCE 1968, OCR line 38557)
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 R441044 (link: llm:number+date, title similarity 0.09)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Sora Film Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1968-08-22
Original cited
L10310 / 8Novi0
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1968: Internet Archive catalogofc19683221213libr, OCR text line 38557
THE MARK OF ZORRO, a photoplay in ten 
reels by Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
Corp. © 8Novi0; L10310. Twentieth 
Sora Film Corp. (PWH); 
22Aug68; R441044 . 
MARRIED BACHELOR, a photoplay in eight 

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: “OCR misread 'Nov40' as 'Novi0' and 'Twentieth Century-Fox' as 'Twentieth Sora'. Original number L10310 interpreted as LP10310 based on context (photoplay).”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1941, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig141libr (OCR text), lines 13175–13179.

Mark of Zorro; based on the story The 
curse of Capistrano, by Johnston Mc- 
Culley. © Nov. 8, 1940; L 10310; 
Twentieth century-Fox film corp., 
New York. 1978 

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