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PHIL SPITALNY AND HIS HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA ORCHESTRA

PHIL SPITALNY AND HIS HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA ORCHESTRA. (Metro Movietone Act) 1930. 695 ft., sd., b&w.

Registration MP1419 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-04-28
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-04-28; 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 R197594 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.51)

Renewal claimant
Loew's Incorporated (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-08-09
Original cited
M1419 / 28Apr30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 47462
VANIA ORCHESTRA; MELODY OF MUSICAL 
COMEDY HITS; FAREWELL BLUES. A 
motion picture in one reel by Metro- 
Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. 
© 28Apr30; M1419. Loew's Incor- 
porated (PWH); 9Aug57; R197594. 
THE PICNIC, a motion picture in one 
reel by Columbia Pictures Corp. 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 188126–188130.

  PHIL SPITALNY AND HIS HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA ORCHESTRA. (Metro Movietone
    Act) 1930. 695 ft., sd., b&w.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 28Apr30; MP1419.

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