Public Reel

PART TIME WIFE

PART TIME WIFE. 1930. 6,500 ft., sd. Based on the story "The Shepper-Newfounder" by Stewart Edward White.

Director, Leo McCarey; screenplay and dialogue, Raymond L. Schrock, Leo McCarey; editor, Jack Murray.

Registration LP1788 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-11-18
Claimant
Fox Film Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-11-18; 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 R206605 (link: date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film reels by Fox Film Corp. L1788, Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1958-01-13
Original cited
None / 18Nov30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 19382
R215024., 
PART TIME WIFE, a photoplay in eight 
© 18Nov30; 
Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
reels by Fox Film Corp. 
L1788, 

Renewal R206605 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
L1788 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 19387
Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
reels by Fox Film Corp. 
L1788, 
Corp. (PWH); 13Jan58; R206605. 
PARTY HUSBAND, a photoplay in eight 

Low confidence. This number was found loose in a stretch of OCR where two printed columns are interleaved, so its own © date clause could not be read; the link rests on the number and the renewal year alone. Read the page image before relying on it.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 181042–181049.

  PART TIME WIFE. 1930. 6,500 ft., sd. Based on the story "The
    Shepper-Newfounder" by Stewart Edward White.

    Credits: Director, Leo McCarey; screenplay and dialogue, Raymond L.
    Schrock, Leo McCarey; editor, Jack Murray.

    © Fox Film Corp.; 18Nov30; LP1788.

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