Public Reel

WIDE OPEN

WIDE OPEN. Vitaphone. 1930. 7 reels. From the novel "The Narrow Street" by Edwin Bateman Morris.

Director, Archie Mayo; screenplay, James A. Starr, Arthur Caesar.

Registration LP992 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-01-13
Claimant
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-01-13; 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 R187769 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Associated Artists Productions Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-03-13
Original cited
L992 / 13Jan30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 22122
WIDE OPEN, a photoplay in seven 
reels by Warner Bros. Pictures. 
© 13Jan30; L992. Associated 
Artists Productions Corp. (PWH); 
13Mar57; R187769. 
THE WIFE'S BIRTHDAY, a photoplay in 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 270471–270478.

  WIDE OPEN. Vitaphone. 1930. 7 reels. From the novel "The Narrow
    Street" by Edwin Bateman Morris.

    Credits: Director, Archie Mayo; screenplay, James A. Starr, Arthur
    Caesar.

    © Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 13Jan30; LP992.

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