Public Reel

BILLY THE KID

BILLY THE KID. 1930. 11 reels, sd., b&w. From the book "Saga of Billy the Kid" by Walter Noble Burns.

Producer and director, King Vidor; continuity, Wanda Tuchock; dialogue, Laurence Stallings; additional dialogue, Charles MacArthur; film editor, Hugh Wynn.

Registration LP1671 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-10-23
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-10-23; 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 R207797 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
L1671 / 230ct30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 16696
BILLY THE KID, a photoplay in eleven 
reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Dis- 
tributing Corp. © 230ct30; 
L1671. Loew's, Inc. Genie 
22Jan58; R207797. 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 18631–18639.

  BILLY THE KID. 1930. 11 reels, sd., b&w. From the book "Saga of Billy
    the Kid" by Walter Noble Burns.

    Credits: Producer and director, King Vidor; continuity, Wanda
    Tuchock; dialogue, Laurence Stallings; additional dialogue, Charles
    MacArthur; film editor, Hugh Wynn.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 23Oct30; LP1671.

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