Public Reel

THE SEA BAT

THE SEA BAT. 1930. 8 reels, sd., b&w.

Story, Dorothy Yost; dramatization, Bess Meredyth, John Howard Lawson; film editor, Ira Morgan.

Registration LP1401 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-07-07
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-07-07; 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 R207063 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.29)

Renewal claimant
Loew's, Ine (PWH)
Renewal date
1958-01-15
Original cited
L1401 / 7Jul30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 19812
THE SEA BAT, a photoplay in eight 
reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Dis- 
tributing Corp. © 7Jul30; L1401. 
Loew's, Ine. (PWH); 15Jan58; 
R207063. 
SEE LIGHTNING 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 212702–212708.

  THE SEA BAT. 1930. 8 reels, sd., b&w.

    Credits: Story, Dorothy Yost; dramatization, Bess Meredyth, John
    Howard Lawson; film editor, Ira Morgan.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 7Jul30; LP1401.

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