DRESSED TO KILL
DRESSED TO KILL. 8 reels. Directed by Roy William Neill; screen play by Leonard Lee; adaptation by Frank Gruber; adapted from a story ‘by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Registration LP360 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1946-05-13
- Claimant
- Universal Pictures Co., Inc.
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1973-1975 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1975 (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 1973 or 1974 volume; volumes searched: 1973, 1974, 1975.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1946, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig191libr (OCR text), lines 70334–70343.
DRESSED TO KILL. 8 reels. Directed by Roy William Neill; screen play by Leonard Lee; adaptation by Frank Gruber; adapted from a story ‘by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, © 5-13-46; 2c 6-12-46, production sheets; Uni- versal Pictures Co., Inc., author and claimant, New York; L 360. DRIFTIN’ RIVER. 6 reels.
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dressed To Kill | 1946 | 793,520 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Dressed To Kill | 1946 | 146,574 | TheVideoCellarCollection, feature_films |
| Dressed to Kill | 1946 | 19,199 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Dressed to Kill | 1946 | 4,868 | movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers |
| Dressed To Kill | 1946 | 2,572 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
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