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GEORGE DEWEY WASHINGTON SINGING JUST BE A BUILDER OF DREAMS, DOWN AMONG THE SUGAR CANE

GEORGE DEWEY WASHINGTON SINGING JUST BE A BUILDER OF DREAMS, DOWN AMONG THE SUGAR CANE. (Metro Movietone Act, A-84) 1929. 1 reel, sd.

Registration MP471 Copyright term expired

Term began
1929-07-29
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1929-07-29; the maximum term (28 + 67 years) ended before 2026-01-01
In the public domain since
1 January 2025 (maximum 95-year term from 1929)

The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01.

Renewal R190527 (link: date+title, title similarity 0.54)

Renewal claimant
Loew's Incorporated (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-04-08
Original cited
M71 / 29Ju129
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 19528
JUST BE A BUILDER OF DREAMS, AND 
DOWN AMONG THE SUGAR CANE; a mo=- 
tion picture in one reel by Metro- 
Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. 
(Metro movietone act) © 29Ju129; 
M71. Loew's Incorporated (PWH); 
8Apr57; R190527. 
GEORGE DEWEY WASHINGTON, THE GOLDEN- 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 81298–81302.

  GEORGE DEWEY WASHINGTON SINGING JUST BE A BUILDER OF DREAMS, DOWN
    AMONG THE SUGAR CANE. (Metro Movietone Act, A-84) 1929. 1 reel, sd.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 29Jul29; MP471.

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