My Gun Is Quick

The film 'My Gun Is Quick', directed by Phil Victor and George White, was released in August 1957 and registered for copyright by Parklane Pictures, Inc. on August 1, 1957, under registration number LP8819. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term to extend protection to a second term. I conducted a search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE). While the original 1957 registration is documented, no renewal record was found in the 1984 or 1985 renewal windows (27-28 years after 1957). The film appears in the 'Film Superlist' (Hurst) and other public domain filmographies as a work that fell into the public domain due to non-renewal. Consequently, the film entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 1986.