General Category > General Discussion
A request regarding the Basil Rathbone/Sherlock Holmes movies
Alessandro Bottero:
hi to everyone.
i've a request regarding a project i'm working on, for another italian publisher.
is there anyone who knows if the 12 Basil Rathbone/Sherlock Holmes movies are Public Domain?
or, is there someone wich could tell me WHERE to find this kind of info?
thanks a lot.
Alessandro Bottero
skybandit:
The Woman in Green, The Secret Weapon, Terror by Night and Dressed to kill are in the public domain. The rest have had their copyrights renewed.
narfstar:
Thanks for chiming in Sky good to see you in the forum been awhile
Alessandro Bottero:
thanks, skybandit. it confirms the infos i had.
anyay, i found there is a TV series of 1954 (39 half-hour episodes) wich should be in public domain.
this is the info i found on the web
"The first and only American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954. The 39 half-hour mostly original stories were produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France by Guild Films, starring Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard) as Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Watson. Archie Duncan appeared in many episodes as Inspector Lestrade (and a few as other characters). Richard Larke, billed as Kenneth Richards, played Sgt. Wilkins in about fifteen episodes. The series’ associate producer, Nicole Milinaire, was one of the first women to attain a senior production role in a television series."
Archive.org list it under "Public Domain"
josemas:
The 1950s Holmes' television series is indeed PD. Millcreek has an inexpensive DVD collection of the complete series available.
There are a number of silent Holmes films that are PD although all are not known to survive. There are also some other pre-Rathbone Holmes talkies from the 1930s that are PD.
Best
Joe
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version