PALOOKA
PALOOKA. Released through United Artists. 1934. 9 reels, sd. Based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher.
Producer, Edward Small; director, Benjamin Stoloff; screenplay, Gertrude Purcell, Jack Jevne, Arthur Kober; additional dialogue, Ben Ryan, Murray Roth; film editor, Grant Wytock.
Registration LP4718 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1934-05-08
- Claimant
- Reliance Pictures, Inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1961-1963 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1963 (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 1961 or 1962 volume; volumes searched: 1961, 1962, 1963.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 176209–176217.
PALOOKA. Released through United Artists. 1934. 9 reels, sd. Based on
the comic strip by Ham Fisher.
Credits: Producer, Edward Small; director, Benjamin Stoloff;
screenplay, Gertrude Purcell, Jack Jevne, Arthur Kober; additional
dialogue, Ben Ryan, Murray Roth; film editor, Grant Wytock.
© Reliance Pictures, Inc.; 8May34; LP4718.
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palooka | 1934 | 31,237 | billspraguefilm, fav-1969nam |
| Palooka | 1934 | 28,482 | Comedy_Films, feature_films |
| Palooka (1934) | 1934 | 171 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
Matched by title and year on 5 September 2026; check that the item is this film and not a remake or a trailer.