THE DRAGON MURDER CASE
THE DRAGON MURDER CASE. Presented by First National Productions Corp. and The Vitaphone Corp. 1934. 7 reels. From the story by S. S. Van Dine [pseud. of Willard Huntington Wright].
Director, H. Bruce Humberstone; screenplay, F. Hugh Herbert, Robert N. Lee; adaptation, Rian James; dialogue director, Daniel Reed.
Registration LP4961 Renewed
- Term began
- 1934-09-22
- Claimant
- First National Pictures, Inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- renewal filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (llm:number+date; CCE 1961, OCR line 49410)
- Enters the public domain
- 1 January 2030 (95 years from the 1934 publication)
A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.
Renewal (link: llm:number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- None / 22Sep34
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1961: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3151213libr, OCR text line 49410
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This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “Renewal number is unreadable in the provided chunk. Original number read as LP#961, likely LP4961 based on context and typical format. Renewal claimant and original date are clear from surrounding lines.”
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 56994–57003.
THE DRAGON MURDER CASE. Presented by First National Productions Corp.
and The Vitaphone Corp. 1934. 7 reels. From the story by S. S. Van
Dine [pseud. of Willard Huntington Wright].
Credits: Director, H. Bruce Humberstone; screenplay, F. Hugh
Herbert, Robert N. Lee; adaptation, Rian James; dialogue director,
Daniel Reed.
© First National Pictures, Inc.; 22Sep34; LP4961.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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