{"canonical_url":"https://publicreel.org/film/14435","film_page_url":null,"answer":"Free in the US since 1 January 1967, on the registry's reading: registration MP9147 of 1938 by The Vitaphone Corp was not renewed in the volumes searched.","revision_url":"https://publicreel.org/film/14435/evidence/97743bbe","jurisdiction":"US","finding":"no-renewal-found","finding_label":"No renewal found","finding_reason":"no renewal entry found for 1965-1967 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections","public_domain_from":"1967-01-01","finding_revision":"97743bbe","finding_recorded":"2026-09-05 20:21:43.699877+00:00","review_status":"automated","title":"HAMATEUR NIGHT","title_display":"Hamateur Night","registration_year":1938,"release_year":null,"sources":[{"name":"Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951)","citation":"Project Gutenberg #51836","url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51836","lines":[91683,91690]}],"limitations":["An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.","The finding is about the US copyright record only; it is not legal advice and says nothing about other countries, underlying works, music, or a particular copy."],"entry":{"id":14435,"source":"pg51836","title":"HAMATEUR NIGHT","header":"HAMATEUR NIGHT. (Merrie Melodies) 1938. 7 min., sd., color.","year":1938,"reels":null,"feet":null,"sound":true,"credits":"Producer, Leon Schlesinger; supervision, Fred Avery; story, Jack Miller; animation, Paul Smith; music director, Carl W. Stalling.","notes":[],"line_start":91683,"line_end":91690,"source_text":"  HAMATEUR NIGHT. (Merrie Melodies) 1938. 7 min., sd., color.\n\n    Credits: Producer, Leon Schlesinger; supervision, Fred Avery; story,\n    Jack Miller; animation, Paul Smith; music director, Carl W.\n    Stalling.\n\n    © The Vitaphone Corp.; 12Dec38; MP9147.\n","ia_items":[],"ia_lookup":[],"atlas":[],"picture":null},"registrations":[{"id":15770,"entry_id":14435,"reg_number":"MP9147","series":2,"see_also":[],"reg_class":"MP","published":true,"claimant":"The Vitaphone Corp","author":null,"deposit":null,"reg_date":"1938-12-12","part":null,"part_title":null,"source_line":91689,"raw":"© The Vitaphone Corp.; 12Dec38; MP9147.","flags":[],"status":"no-renewal-found","pd_date":"1967-01-01","reason":"no renewal entry found for 1965-1967 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections","match_kind":null,"match_confidence":null,"title_similarity":null,"renewals":[],"window":[1965,1966],"window_volumes":[{"year":1965,"ia_identifier":"catalogofc19653191213libr"},{"year":1966,"ia_identifier":"catalogofc19663201213libr"},{"year":1967,"ia_identifier":"catalogofc19673211213libr"}]}]}