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English: Ad sheet for the 1932 film The Old Dark House. Variation on the design used for the one-sheet poster. The accompanying text reads:

Five persons in the house . . .
strangers cut off from the world
by thunderstorms and landslide
. . . Terror of the unknown draws
them together . . . makes them
open their pasts to each other . . .
Then, as the excitement reaches
its peak, when the girl, alone on
the stairs, finds the drunken mon-
ster lurching toward her — — —

* * *

Man, this is a mystery story
. . . a suspense story . . . a
box-office story, featuring a
great cast headed by
BORIS KARLOFF
MELVIN DOUGLAS

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English: *Original source: printed in the Universal Exhibitor Book 1932–33 – more information (and alternate scan) can be seen at Heritage Auctions.
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English: Illustrated and designed by Karoly Grosz. Distributed by Universal Pictures.
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English: It is unclear whether the Universal Exhibitor Book 1932–33 was published with a valid copyright notice. Regardless, the copyright for the artwork was not renewed, as was required by American copyright law to extend/maintain protection for works published 1963 or earlier. In order to maintain copyright protection, the poster would have had to be renewed 28 years after publication, in either 1959 or 1960 (see the sections for "Artwork: Original registrations and renewals" and refer to the links to search the copyright catalogs for those years). Because it was not renewed, copyright lapsed at that time. Note that the ad art is a distinct work from the film it represents and had to be renewed separately.
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