Public Reel

THE BIG HOUSE

THE BIG HOUSE. Cosmopolitan. 1930. 10 reels, sd., b&w.

Director, George Hill; story and dialogue, Frances Marion; additional dialogue, Joe Farnham, Martin Flavin; film editor, Blanche Sewell.

Registration LP1367 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-06-19
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-06-19; 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 R206816 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Loew's, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1958-01-13
Original cited
L1367 / 19Jun30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 16669
THE BIG HOUSE, a photoplay in ten 
reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Dis- 
tributing Corp. © 19Jun30; 
L1367. Loew's, Inc. (PWH); 
13Jan58; R206816, 
THE BIG KICK, a photoplay in two 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 17694–17701.

  THE BIG HOUSE. Cosmopolitan. 1930. 10 reels, sd., b&w.

    Credits: Director, George Hill; story and dialogue, Frances Marion;
    additional dialogue, Joe Farnham, Martin Flavin; film editor,
    Blanche Sewell.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 19Jun30; LP1367.

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