THE STRANGER
THE STRANGER. 10 reels. Produced by S. P. Eagle; direction by Orson Welles; screen play by Anthony Veiller; original story by Victor Trivas; adaptation by Victor Trivas and Decla Dunning.
Registration LP409 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1946-06-27
- Claimant
- Haig 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 86529–86541.
THE STRANGER. 10 reels. Produced by S. P. Eagle; direction by Orson Welles; screen play by Anthony Veiller; original story by Victor Trivas; adaptation by Victor Trivas and Decla Dunning. © 6-27-46; 2c 7-10-46, cutting continuity; Haig Corp., author and claimant, Hollywood, Calif.; L 409. STRANGLER OF THE SWAMP. 6 reels.
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Stranger | 1946 | 658,667 | Film_Noir, feature_films |
| The Stranger (720p HD) | 1946 | 76,702 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| The Stranger (1946) [P&M] 1080p Blu-ray (8.7GB) | 1946 | 22,907 | opensource_movies, community |
| The Stranger (1946) [HD] | 1946 | 10,491 | opensource_movies, community |
| The Stranger | 1946 | 4,296 | movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers |
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