Public Reel

THE SHANGHAI COBRA

7 reels, Produced by James S. Burkett; directed by Terry Morse; original screen play by Raymond Schrock; based on a character created by Earl Derr Biggers.

Registration LP420 No renewal found

Term began
1946-07-05
Claimant
Monogram Pictures Corp.
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.

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 LP420.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1946, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig191libr (OCR text), lines 85337–85348.

7 reels, 
Produced by James S. Burkett; directed by Terry 
Morse; original screen play by Raymond Schrock; 
based on a character created by Earl Derr 
Biggers. 

© 7-5-46; 2c 7-10-46, production sheet; Mono- 
gram Pictures Corp., author and claimant, Holly- 
wood, Calif.; L 420. 


7 reels. 

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