CONTENDER
Contender.
Registration LP12654 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1944-05-10
- Claimant
- P. R. C. pictures, inc.
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1971-1973 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1973 (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 1971 or 1972 volume; volumes searched: 1971, 1972, 1973.
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 LP12654.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1944, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig171libr (OCR text), lines 13856–13860.
Commands. See Handling a lifeboat under oars. Contender. © May 10, 1944; L 12654; P. R. C. pictures, inc., New York. 3377
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Contender | 1944 | 100,279 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Contender, The | 1944 | 7,055 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
Matched by title and year on 5 September 2026; check that the item is this film and not a remake or a trailer.