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STRICTLY-UNCONVENTIONAL

STRICTLY-UNCONVENTIONAL. 1930. 6 reels, sd., b&w. Based on the play "The Circle" by W. Somerset Maugham.

Director, David Burton; talking version, Sylvia Thalberg, Frank Butler; film editor, Margaret Booth.

Registration LP1259 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-04-28
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-04-28; 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 R197585 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.29)

Renewal claimant
Loew's Incorporated (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-08-09
Original cited
L1259 / 28Apr30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 48195
STRICTLY UNCONVENTIONAL, a photoplay 
in six reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 
Distributing Corp. © 28Apr30; 
L1259. Loew's Incorporated (PWH); 
9Aug57; R197585. 
STRIKE UP THE BAND, a motion picture 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 233897–233904.

  STRICTLY-UNCONVENTIONAL. 1930. 6 reels, sd., b&w. Based on the play
    "The Circle" by W. Somerset Maugham.

    Credits: Director, David Burton; talking version, Sylvia Thalberg,
    Frank Butler; film editor, Margaret Booth.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 28Apr30; LP1259.

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