Public Reel

MOBY DICK

MOBY DICK. 1930. 9 reels, sd. From the novel by Herman Melville.

Director, Lloyd Bacon; screenplay and dialogue, J. Grubb Alexander; adaptation, Oliver H. P. Garrett.

Registration LP1519 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-08-26
Claimant
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-08-26; 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 R215630 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1958-06-03
Original cited
L1519 / 26Aug30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 18749
MOBY DICK, a photoplay in nine reels by 
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc, 
© 26Aug30; L1519. Warner Bros. Pic- 
tures, Inc. (PWH); 3Jun58; R215630. 
MODELS IN MOTION FOR FREE HAND DRAWING, 
a motion picture by George W. Hoke, 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 154486–154492.

  MOBY DICK. 1930. 9 reels, sd. From the novel by Herman Melville.

    Credits: Director, Lloyd Bacon; screenplay and dialogue, J. Grubb
    Alexander; adaptation, Oliver H. P. Garrett.

    © Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.; 26Aug30; LP1519.

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