Public Reel

GRUMPY

GRUMPY. 1930. 6,651 ft., sd. Adapted from the play by Horace Hodges and Thomas Wigney Percyval.

Directors, George Cukor, Cyril Gardner; screenplay and added dialogue, Doris Anderson.

Registration LP1511 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-08-22
Claimant
Paramount Publix Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-08-22; the maximum term (28 + 67 years) ended before 2026-01-01
In the public domain since
1 January 2026 (maximum 95-year term from 1930)

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

Renewal R198355 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-08-30
Original cited
L1511 / 22Aug30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 45949
Corp. (PWH); 23Dec57; R205040, 
GRUMPY, a photoplay in nine reels by 
Paramount Publix Corp. © 22Aug30; 
L1511. Paramount Pictures Corp. 
(PWH); 30Aug57; R198355. 
GUS VAN AND JOE SCHENCK, THAT'S HOW 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 90228–90235.

  GRUMPY. 1930. 6,651 ft., sd. Adapted from the play by Horace Hodges
    and Thomas Wigney Percyval.

    Credits: Directors, George Cukor, Cyril Gardner; screenplay and
    added dialogue, Doris Anderson.

    © Paramount Publix Corp.; 22Aug30; LP1511.

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