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.
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.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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