MY MAN GODFREY

MY MAN GODFREY. 1936. 10 reels, sd. Based on the novel by Eric Hatch.

Producer and director, Gregory La Cava; screenplay, Eric Hatch, Morrie Ryskind; film editor, Ted Kent.

Registration LP6572 No renewal found

Term began

1936-08-27

Claimant

Universal Productions, Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1963-1965 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1965 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1963 or 1964 volume; volumes searched: 1963, 1964, 1965.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 159788–159794.

  MY MAN GODFREY. 1936. 10 reels, sd. Based on the novel by Eric Hatch.

    Credits: Producer and director, Gregory La Cava; screenplay, Eric
    Hatch, Morrie Ryskind; film editor, Ted Kent.

    © Universal Productions, Inc.; 27Aug36; LP6572.

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