Public Reel

PORT OF MISSING MICE

Chap. no. 1, The mechanical terror.

Registration LP13399 (part 1: The mechanical terror) No renewal found

Term began
1945-04-20
Claimant
Chap. no. 2
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1972-1974 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since
1 January 1974 (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 1972 or 1973 volume; volumes searched: 1972, 1973, 1974.

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 LP13399.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1945, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig181libr (OCR text), lines 23322–23325.

Chap. no. 1, The mechanical terror. © Apr. 20, 
1945; L 13399. 

Chap. no. 2, The edge of doom. © Apr. 27, 1945; 

Copies on the Internet Archive

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The Port of Missing Mice (1945)1945171feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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