Public Reel

THE UNHOLY NIGHT

THE UNHOLY NIGHT. 1929. 10 reels, sd., b&w.

Director, Lionel Barrymore; story, Ben Hecht; screenplay, Edwin Justus Mayer; adaptation, Dorothy Farnum; film editor, Grant Whytock.

Registration LP703 Copyright term expired

Term began
1929-09-23
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1929-09-23; the maximum term (28 + 67 years) ended before 2026-01-01
In the public domain since
1 January 2025 (maximum 95-year term from 1929)

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

Renewal R192599 (link: number+title, title similarity 0.41)

Renewal claimant
Loew's Incorporated (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-05-24
Original cited
L703 / 23Sep293
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 21989
THE UNHOLY NIGHT, a photoplay in ten 
reels by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 
Distributing Corp. © 23Sep293; 
L703. Loew's Incorporated (PWH); 
24May57; R192599. 
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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 254641–254648.

  THE UNHOLY NIGHT. 1929. 10 reels, sd., b&w.

    Credits: Director, Lionel Barrymore; story, Ben Hecht; screenplay,
    Edwin Justus Mayer; adaptation, Dorothy Farnum; film editor, Grant
    Whytock.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.; 23Sep29; LP703.

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