Public Reel

LIGHTNIN'

LIGHTNIN'. 1930. 8,500 ft. Based on John Golden's production of the play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon.

Director, Henry King; screen adaptation, S. N. Behrman, Sonya Levien; editor, Louis Loeffler.

Registration LP1729 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-10-31
Claimant
Fox Film Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-10-31; 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 R201148 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-10-31
Original cited
L1729 / 310ct30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 46592
R205090, 
LIGHTNIN', a photoplay in 8,500 ft. 
by Fox Film Corp. © 310ct30; 
L1729. Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
Corp. (PWH); 310ct57; R201148. 
LILIES OF THE FIELD, a photoplay in 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 131310–131317.

  LIGHTNIN'. 1930. 8,500 ft. Based on John Golden's production of the
    play by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon.

    Credits: Director, Henry King; screen adaptation, S. N. Behrman,
    Sonya Levien; editor, Louis Loeffler.

    © Fox Film Corp.; 31Oct30; LP1729.

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