Public Reel

MIDNIGHT MYSTERY

MIDNIGHT MYSTERY. 1930. 7 reels, sd. From the play "Hawk Island" by Howard Irving Young.

Director, George B. Seitz; screenplay, Beulah Marie Dix.

Registration LP1396 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-06-01
Claimant
RKO Productions, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-06-01; 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 R204820 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, a division of RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-12-19
Original cited
L1396 / 1Jun30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 46858
MIDNIGHT MYSTERY, a photoplay in seven 
reels by RKO Productions, Ine. 
© 1Jun30; L1396. RKO Radio Pic- 
tures, a division of RKO Teleradio 
Pictures, Inc. (PWH); 19Dec57; 
R204820. 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 150868–150874.

  MIDNIGHT MYSTERY. 1930. 7 reels, sd. From the play "Hawk Island" by
    Howard Irving Young.

    Credits: Director, George B. Seitz; screenplay, Beulah Marie Dix.

    © RKO Productions, Inc.; 1Jun30; LP1396.

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