Public Reel

TOP SPEED

TOP SPEED. 1930. 8 reels.

Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmer, Guy Bolton; director, Mervyn Le Roy; screen version, Humphrey Pearson, Henry McCarty.

Registration LP1552 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-09-06
Claimant
First National Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-09-06; 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 R208823 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Associated Artists Productions Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1958-02-14
Original cited
L1552 / 6Sep30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1958: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li, OCR text line 20492
TOP SPEED, a photoplay in eight reels 
by First National Pictures, Inc. 
© 6Sep30; L1552. Associated Art- 
ists Productions Corp. (PWH); 
14Feb58; R208823. 
TOWER OF TERROR. SEE LIGHTNING EX- 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 247859–247865.

  TOP SPEED. 1930. 8 reels.

    Credits: Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmer, Guy Bolton; director, Mervyn Le
    Roy; screen version, Humphrey Pearson, Henry McCarty.

    © First National Pictures, Inc.; 6Sep30; LP1552.

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