Public Reel

OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA

OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA. Cosmopolitan. Presented by First National Productions Corp. and the Vitaphone Corp. Released by First National Productions Corp. 1935. 10 reels, sd. Based on the novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart.

Director, Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay, Laird Doyle.

Registration LP5581 Renewed

Term began
1935-06-04
Claimant
First National Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R304078 filed 1962-11-08 by United Artists Associated, Inc (number+date; CCE 1962, OCR line 41200)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2031 (95 years from the 1935 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R304078 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.65)

Renewal claimant
United Artists Associated, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1962-11-08
Original cited
LP5581 / 4Jun35
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1962: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3161213libr, OCR text line 41200
OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA, a photoplay 
in ten reels by First National Pic- 
tures. © 4Jun35; LP5581. United 
Artists Associated, Inc. (PWH); 
8Nov62; R304078. 
OKAY TOOTS, a photoplay in two reels by 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 168951–168959.

  OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA. Cosmopolitan. Presented by First National
    Productions Corp. and the Vitaphone Corp. Released by First National
    Productions Corp. 1935. 10 reels, sd. Based on the novel by Alice
    Tisdale Hobart.

    Credits: Director, Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay, Laird Doyle.

    © First National Pictures, Inc.; 4Jun35; LP5581.

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