THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM

THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM. United Artists. Presented by Samuel Goldwyn. 1932. 9 reels. Based on the play "The Greeks Had a Word for It" by Zoe Akins.

Producer, Sam Goldwyn; director, Lowell Sherman; adaptation, Sidney Howard; music score, Alfred Newman; film editor, Stuart Heisler.

Registration LP2880 No renewal found

Term began

1932-02-13

Claimant

Feature Productions, Inc., Ltd

Author

Zoe Akins, author

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1959-1961 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1961 (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 1959 or 1960 volume; volumes searched: 1959, 1960, 1961.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 89481–89491.

  THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM. United Artists. Presented by Samuel
    Goldwyn. 1932. 9 reels. Based on the play "The Greeks Had a Word for
    It" by Zoe Akins.

    Credits: Producer, Sam Goldwyn; director, Lowell Sherman;
    adaptation, Sidney Howard; music score, Alfred Newman; film editor,
    Stuart Heisler.

    © Feature Productions, Inc., Ltd. (Zoe Akins, author); 13Feb32;
    LP2880.

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