Gambler’s Choice

Gambler’s choice; from an original story by Howard Emmett Rogers & James Edward Grant.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1973, on the registry's reading: registration LP12728 of 1944 by Paramount Pictures, Inc was not renewed in the volumes searched.

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Finding revision 3dee21dc, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration LP12728 No renewal found

Term began: 1944-04-20
Claimant: Paramount 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
Conditional date: 1 January 1973, if no renewal was filed. The automated search result requires verification against the linked volumes.

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An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

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 LP12728.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1944, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig171libr (OCR text), lines 19732–19735.

Gambler’s choice; from an original story by Howard 
Emmett Rogers & James Edward Grant. © Apr. 
20, 1944; L 12728; Paramount pictures, inc., 
New York. . 4398

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Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Gambler's Choice	1944	54,847	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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