Public Reel

LITTLE CAESAR

LITTLE CAESAR. First National and Vitaphone. 1930. 8 reels, sd. Based on the novel by W. R. Burnett.

Director, Mervyn LeRoy; screen version and dialogue, Francis Edwards Faragoh; continuity, Robert N. Lee.

Registration LP1912 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-12-29
Claimant
First National Pictures. Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-12-29; 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 R208355 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Associated Artists Productions Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1958-02-04
Original cited
L1912 / 29Dec30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 18423
LITTLE CAESAR, a photoplay in eight 
reels by First National Pictures, 
Ine. © 29Dec30; L1912. Associ- 
ated Artists Productions Corp. 
(PWH); 4Feb58; R208355. 
THE LITTLE TRAIL, a motion picture in 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 132628–132635.

  LITTLE CAESAR. First National and Vitaphone. 1930. 8 reels, sd. Based
    on the novel by W. R. Burnett.

    Credits: Director, Mervyn LeRoy; screen version and dialogue,
    Francis Edwards Faragoh; continuity, Robert N. Lee.

    © First National Pictures. Inc.; 29Dec30; LP1912.

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