Public Reel

IT'S A GREAT LIFE

IT'S A GREAT LIFE. 1929. 11 reels, sd., b&w.

Producer and director, Sam Wood; story, Byron Morgan, Alfred Block; dialogue, Willard Mack; treatment and comedy dialogue, Al Boasberg; film editor, Frank Sullivan; music, Dave Dreyer; lyrics, Ballard MacDonald.

Registration LP889 Copyright term expired

Term began
1929-12-09
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1929-12-09; 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 R195898 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Loew's Incorporated (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-06-27
Original cited
L889 / 9Dec29
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 46351
IT'S A GREAT LIFE, a photoplay in 
eleven reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 
Distributing Corp. © 9Dec29; 
L889. Loew's Incorporated (PWH); 
27Jun57; R195898. 
IT'S ALL OVER, a photoplay in one 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 117092–117100.

  IT'S A GREAT LIFE. 1929. 11 reels, sd., b&w.

    Credits: Producer and director, Sam Wood; story, Byron Morgan,
    Alfred Block; dialogue, Willard Mack; treatment and comedy dialogue,
    Al Boasberg; film editor, Frank Sullivan; music, Dave Dreyer;
    lyrics, Ballard MacDonald.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 9Dec29; LP889.

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