An Old Spanish Onion

AN OLD SPANISH ONION. 1935. 2 reels, sd.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1964, on the registry's reading: registration LP5340 of 1935 by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc was not renewed in the volumes searched.

Finding revision 46e18673, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Producer, Lee Marcus; director, Alf Goulding; story, Forman Brown.

Registration LP5340 No renewal found

Term began: 1935-02-20
Claimant: RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1962-1964 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
Conditional date: 1 January 1964, if no renewal was filed. The automated search result requires verification against the linked volumes.

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An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1962 or 1963 volume; volumes searched: 1962, 1963, 1964.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP5340.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 169837–169843.

  AN OLD SPANISH ONION. 1935. 2 reels, sd.

    Credits: Producer, Lee Marcus; director, Alf Goulding; story, Forman
    Brown.

    © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 20Feb35; LP5340.

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