Public Reel

THE LAST LAUGH

is job, experiences a sudden change in fortune. Setting: Berlin in the 1920's. Credits: Producer, Erich Pommer; director, Frederick W. Murnau; scenario, Karl Mayer; settings, Hearlth & Roehrig; photographer, Karl Freund. Cast: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkirchen

Registration LP1917 Renewed

Term began
1952-08-08
Claimant
on new main and credit titles, narration in place of insert title, elimination of insert title and substitution of scenes from the photoplay, music synchronized to picture and sound effects
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE72693 filed 1980-08-26 by Gothic Productions, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6970169)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal RE72693 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Gothic Productions, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-08-26
Original cited
LP1917 / 1952-08-08
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6970169: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE72693, registered 1980-08-26, for original registration LP1917 published 1952-08-08.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 42938–42954.

friends when he is dismissed from his job, 
experiences a sudden change in fortune. 
Setting: Berlin in the 1920's. 

Credits: Producer, Erich Pommer; direc- 
tor, Frederick W. Murnau; scenario, Karl 
Mayer; settings, Hearlth & Roehrig; photog- 
rapher, Karl Freund. Cast: Emil Jannings, 
Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, 
Hans Unterkirchen. 

© on new main and credit titles, narration 
in place of insert title, elimination of insert 
title and substitution of scenes from the 
photoplay, music synchronized to picture 
and sound effects; The Attorney General of 
the United States; 8Aug52; LP1917. Appl. 

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