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
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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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