THE FRONT PAGE

THE FRONT PAGE. United Artists. Presented by Howard Hughes. 1931. 10 reels. From the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur as produced by Jed Harris.

Director, Lewis Milestone; adaptation, Bartlett Cormack; film editor, W. Duncan Mansfield.

Registration LP2188 No renewal found

Term began: 1931-04-06
Claimant: The Caddo Co., Inc
Author: Ben Hecht and Chas. MacArthur, authors
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1958-1960 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1960 (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 1958 or 1959 volume; volumes searched: 1958, 1959, 1960.

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 LP2188.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 78823–78832.

  THE FRONT PAGE. United Artists. Presented by Howard Hughes. 1931. 10
    reels. From the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur as produced
    by Jed Harris.

    Credits: Director, Lewis Milestone; adaptation, Bartlett Cormack;
    film editor, W. Duncan Mansfield.

    © The Caddo Co., Inc. (Ben Hecht and Chas. MacArthur, authors);
    6Apr31; LP2188.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
The Front Page	1931	108,549	Comedy_Films, feature_films
The Front Page (1931)	1931	1,595	opensource_movies, community
The Front Page (1931)	1931	399	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
The Front Page (1931)	1931	268	Comedy_Films, feature_films
The Front Page (1931)	1931	176	opensource_movies, fav-bradhanford

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