THE SECRET RAY
10 reels. Produced by George Haight; directed by Wesley Ruggles; screen play by Harry Kurnitz; based upon the book by Marion Hargrove; musical score by David Snell.
Registration LP174 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1944-02-14
- Claimant
- Loew’s, Inc.
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- 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.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1946, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig191libr (OCR text), lines 85136–85150.
10 reels. Produced by George Haight; directed by Wesley Ruggles; screen play by Harry Kurnitz; based upon the book by Marion Hargrove; musical score by David Snell. © 2-14-44; 2c 3-27-46, dialogue cutting con- tinuity; Loew’s, Inc., author and claimant, New York; L 174. CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES SEE WHATCHA DO. 1 reel.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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