ESCAPE BY NIGHT

ESCAPE BY NIGHT. 1937. 7 reels, sd.

Associate producer, Harold Shumate; director, Hamilton MacFadden; original screenplay, Harold Shumate; editors, Murray Seldeen, W. Donn Hayes; music director, Alberto Colombo.

Registration LP7460 No renewal found

Term began: 1937-09-20
Claimant: Republic Pictures Corp
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1964-1966 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1966 (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 1964 or 1965 volume; volumes searched: 1964, 1965, 1966.

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 LP7460.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 61514–61521.

  ESCAPE BY NIGHT. 1937. 7 reels, sd.

    Credits: Associate producer, Harold Shumate; director, Hamilton
    MacFadden; original screenplay, Harold Shumate; editors, Murray
    Seldeen, W. Donn Hayes; music director, Alberto Colombo.

    © Republic Pictures Corp.; 20Sep37; LP7460.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
Escape by Night	1937	61,770	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Escape By Night	1937	43,111	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Escape By Night 1937 - Colorized	1937	1,711	Comedy_Films, feature_films

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