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A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR

A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR. First National and Vitaphone. 1930. 69 min., sd. Based on the play by Audrey and Waverly Carter.

Producer, Robert North; director, Lloyd Bacon; scenario, J. Grubb Alexander; film editor, Frank Ware.

Registration LP1262 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-04-26
Claimant
First National Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-04-26; 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 R195732 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.77)

Renewal claimant
Associated Artists Productions Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
19J3u157
Original cited
L1262 / 26Apr30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 47105
THE NOTORIOUS AFFAIR, a photoplay in 
eight reels by First National 
Pictures, Inc. © 26Apr30; L1262. 
Associated Artists Productions Corp. 
(PWH); 19J3u157; R195732. 
NUTTY NOTES, a motion picture in one 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 167141–167148.

  A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR. First National and Vitaphone. 1930. 69 min., sd.
    Based on the play by Audrey and Waverly Carter.

    Credits: Producer, Robert North; director, Lloyd Bacon; scenario, J.
    Grubb Alexander; film editor, Frank Ware.

    © First National Pictures, Inc.; 26Apr30; LP1262.

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