Public Reel

REACHING FOR THE MOON

REACHING FOR THE MOON. United Artists. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. 1931. 9 reels. Based on the story with music by Irving Berlin.

Written and directed by Edmund Goulding; additional dialogue, Elsie Janis; editors, Lloyd Nosler, Hal C. Kern; musical direction, Alfred Newman.

Registration LP2054 No renewal found

Term began
1931-03-01
Claimant
Feature Productions, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1958-1960 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since
1 January 1960 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1958 or 1959 volume; volumes searched: 1958, 1959, 1960.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP2054.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 198738–198746.

  REACHING FOR THE MOON. United Artists. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck.
    1931. 9 reels. Based on the story with music by Irving Berlin.

    Credits: Written and directed by Edmund Goulding; additional
    dialogue, Elsie Janis; editors, Lloyd Nosler, Hal C. Kern; musical
    direction, Alfred Newman.

    © Feature Productions, Inc.; 1Mar31; LP2054.

Copies on the Internet Archive

ItemYearDownloadsCollection
Reaching for the Moon193062,950Comedy_Films, feature_films
Reaching for the Moon (1930)19301,044feature_films_unsorted, feature_films
Reaching For The Moon (1930)1930280opensource_movies, fav-erikbartok

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