Public Reel

PLAYING AROUND

PLAYING AROUND. 1930. 7 reels, sd. Based on the play "Playing Around" by Frances Nordstrom, and adapted from the story "Sheba" by Vina Delmar.

Director, Mervyn LeRoy.

Registration LP1043 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-01-28
Claimant
First National Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-01-28; 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 R187786 (link: date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Associated Artists Productions Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-03-13
Original cited
L103 / 28Jan30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 21202
PLAYING AROUND, a photoplay in seven 
reels by First National Pictures. 
© 28Jan30; L103. Associated 
Artists Productions Corp. (PWH); 
13Mar57; R187786. 
PLAYING FALSE, a photoplay in two 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 189884–189891.

  PLAYING AROUND. 1930. 7 reels, sd. Based on the play "Playing Around"
    by Frances Nordstrom, and adapted from the story "Sheba" by Vina
    Delmar.

    Credits: Director, Mervyn LeRoy.

    © First National Pictures, Inc.; 28Jan30; LP1043.

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