BIRD OF PARADISE
BIRD OF PARADISE. 1932. 9 reels. Suggested by the stage play by Richard Walton Tully.
Producer, King Vidor; screenplay, Wells Root, Wanda Tuchock, Leonard Praskins.
Registration LP3215 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1932-08-20
- Claimant
- RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1959-1961 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1961 (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 1959 or 1960 volume; volumes searched: 1959, 1960, 1961.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 18815–18822.
BIRD OF PARADISE. 1932. 9 reels. Suggested by the stage play by
Richard Walton Tully.
Credits: Producer, King Vidor; screenplay, Wells Root, Wanda
Tuchock, Leonard Praskins.
© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 20Aug32; LP3215.
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bird of Paradise | 1932 | 221,987 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Bird of Paradise | 1932 | 7,235 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Bird of Paradise (1932) [P&M] 1080p Blu-ray (1.6GB) | 1932 | 2,781 | opensource_movies, community |
| Bird of Paradise (1932) | 1932 | 1,285 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| Bird of Paradise (1932) | 1932 | 315 | opensource_movies, fav-blackasia23 |
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