Public Reel

HOTTER THAN HAITI

HOTTER THAN HAITI. (A Slim Summerville Comedy) 1931. 2 reels.

Director, Harry J. Edwards; story, Francis J. Martin, Sidney Levee.

Registration LP2571 Renewed

Term began
1931-10-22
Claimant
Universal Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R243589 filed 1959-10-12 by cee a Universal Pictures Co., Inc (title+window; CCE 1959, OCR line 37343)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2027 (95 years from the 1931 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R243589 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
cee a Universal Pictures Co., Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1959-10-12
Original cited
None / 220ct313
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1959: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3131213li, OCR text line 37343
HOTTER THAN HAITI, a photoplay in two 
reels by Universal Pictures Corp. 
© 220ct3135 cee a Universal Pictures 
Co., Inc. (PWH); 120ct59; R243589. 
A HOUSE DIVIDED, a photoplay in seven 
reels by Universal Pictures Corp. 

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 106677–106683.

  HOTTER THAN HAITI. (A Slim Summerville Comedy) 1931. 2 reels.

    Credits: Director, Harry J. Edwards; story, Francis J. Martin,
    Sidney Levee.

    © Universal Pictures Corp.; 22Oct31; LP2571.

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