BEHIND THE CUP

BEHIND THE CUP. © 1930.

Registration MU1933 Copyright term expired

Term began

1930-08-12

Claimant

Hills Bros

Author

H. G. Hills, author

Class

MU — unpublished motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

copyright term began 1930-08-12; 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 R203165 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant

Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc (PWH)

Renewal date

1957-11-29

Original cited

M1933 / 25Aug30

Source

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 44946

Chicago (PWH); 8Nov57; R20177". 
BEHIND THE CUP, a motion picture by 
H. G. Hills. © 25Aug30; M1933. 
Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc. (PWH); 
29Nov57; R203165. 
BELLE OF THE NIGHT, a photoplay in 

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 15147–15151.

  BEHIND THE CUP. © 1930.

    © Hills Bros. (H. G. Hills, author); title & descr., 25Aug30; 43
    prints, 12Aug30; MU1933.

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