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TWENTIETH CENTURY

TWENTIETH CENTURY. 1934. 9 reels. Based on the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which the authors adapted from the play "Napoleon of Broadway" by Charles Bruce Millholland.

Director, Harmon Weight.

Registration LP20205 Copyright term expired

Term began
1924-03-29
Claimant
Distinctive Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay
Finding
copyright term began 1924-03-29; the maximum term (28 + 67 years) ended before 2026-01-01
In the public domain since
1 January 2020 (maximum 95-year term from 1924)

The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01.

Registration LP4673 Renewed

Term began
1934-04-30
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R290080 filed 1962-02-02 by Columbia Pictures Corp (number+date; CCE 1962, OCR line 17380)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2030 (95 years from the 1934 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R290080 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1962-02-02
Original cited
LP4673 / 30Apr34
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1962: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3161213libr, OCR text line 17380
nine reels by Columbia Pictures Corp. 
© 30Apr34; LP4673. 
Columbia Pictures 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 251736–251751.

  TWENTIETH CENTURY. 1934. 9 reels. Based on the play by Ben Hecht and
    Charles MacArthur, which the authors adapted from the play "Napoleon
    of Broadway" by Charles Bruce Millholland.

    Credits: Director, Howard Hawks; screenplay, Charles MacArthur, Ben
    Hecht; film editor, Gene Havlick.

    © Columbia Pictures Corp.; 30Apr34; LP4673.

    .0 A WEEK. 1924. 6 reels. From a novel by Edgar Franklin [pseud. of
    Edgar Franklin Stearns].

    Credits: Director, Harmon Weight.

    © Distinctive Pictures Corp.; 29Mar24; LP20205.

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