Public Reel

MELODY LANE

MELODY LANE. Jewel. 1929. 8 reels. Adapted from the play "The Understander" by Jo Swerling.

Director, Robert F. Hill; adaptation, J. G. Hawks, Robert F. Hill.

Registration LP545 Copyright term expired

Term began
1929-07-17
Claimant
Universal Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1929-07-17; 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 R192715 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
LPskS. Universal Pictures Co., Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-05-28
Original cited
None / 17Jui29
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 20536
MELODY LANE, a photoplay in eight 
reels by Universal Pictures Corp. 
© 17Jui29; LPskS. Universal 
Pictures Co., Inc. (PWH); 28May57; 
R192715. 
THE MELODY MAN, a photoplay in seven 

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 148579–148586.

  MELODY LANE. Jewel. 1929. 8 reels. Adapted from the play "The
    Understander" by Jo Swerling.

    Credits: Director, Robert F. Hill; adaptation, J. G. Hawks, Robert
    F. Hill.

    © Universal Pictures Corp.; 17Jul29; LP545.

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