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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