Public Reel

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN. 1930. 2 reels, sd.

Director, Morton Blumenstock; story, William K. Wells, David Freedman; dialogue director, Max E. Hayes.

Registration LP1457 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-08-01
Claimant
Paramount Publix Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-08-01; 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 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.88)

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Renewal date
Original cited
L1457 / 1Aug30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 44650
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN, a photoplay 
in two reels by Paramount Publix 
Corp. © 1Aug30; L1457. 
U. M. & M. TV Corp. (PWH); 30Aug57; 
R198371. 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 674–680.

  ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN. 1930. 2 reels, sd.

    Credits: Director, Morton Blumenstock; story, William K. Wells,
    David Freedman; dialogue director, Max E. Hayes.

    © Paramount Publix Corp.; 1Aug30; LP1457.

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