Public Reel

TIED FOR LIFE

TIED FOR LIFE. (Mermaid Comedies) 1933. 18 min., sd.

Producer and director, Arvid E. Gillstrom; story, Dean Ward, Vernon Dent.

Registration LP4024 No renewal found

Term began
1933-07-02
Claimant
Educational Films Corp. of America
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1960-1962 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since
1 January 1962 (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 1960 or 1961 volume; volumes searched: 1960, 1961, 1962.

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 LP4024.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 245357–245363.

  TIED FOR LIFE. (Mermaid Comedies) 1933. 18 min., sd.

    Credits: Producer and director, Arvid E. Gillstrom; story, Dean
    Ward, Vernon Dent.

    © Educational Films Corp. of America; 2Jul33; LP4024.

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