THE BIGSLEEP
BIG GUN FUSILLADE. See Secret Agent X9, no, THE BIGSLEEP. 12 reels. Directed by Howard Hawks; screen play by William Faulkner; Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman; from the novel by Raymond Chandler; musical direction by Leo F. Forbstein; music by Max Steiner.
Registration LP534 Uncertain
- Term began
- not parsed
- Claimant
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- no registration date parsed from the catalog entry
The catalog entry has a problem (missing date, or a number that does not fit its year), so the renewal check cannot be relied on.
Renewal R558104 (link: llm:number+title, title similarity 0.69)
- Renewal claimant
- United Artists Television, Inc (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1973-09-04
- Original cited
- L534 / 31Aug6
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1973: Internet Archive catalogofc19733271213libr, OCR text line 42340
R558104. The Big sleep. By Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. 12 reels. © 31Aug6; L534. United Artists Television, Inc. (PWH); 4Sep73; R558104. R558105.
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: “Original date year '6' interpreted as 1946 based on renewal date 1973 (27 years later). Original number L534 interpreted as LP534 (motion picture).”
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1946, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig191libr (OCR text), lines 67522–67539.
BIG GUN FUSILLADE. See Secret Agent X9, no, 12, THE BIGSLEEP. 12 reels. Directed by Howard Hawks; screen play by Wil- liam Faulkner; Leigh Brackett and Jules Furth- man; from the novel by Raymond Chandler; musi- cal direction by Leo F. Forbstein; music by Max Steiner. © 9-31-46; 2c 9-3-46, synopsis; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc,, author and claimant, New York; L 534, BIG SNOOZE. 1 reel.
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