Public Reel

CHAINED

CHAINED. 1934. 8 reels, sd., b&w.

Producer, Hunt Stromberg; director, Clarence Brown; original story, Edgar Selwyn; screenplay, John Lee Mahin; film editor, Robert J. Kern; music score, Herbert Stothart.

Registration LP4965 Renewed

Term began
1934-09-01
Claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (llm:date+title; CCE 1961, OCR line 49418)
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 (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
None / 1Sep34
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1961: Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3151213libr, OCR text line 49418
SHADOW, 6. LP4987. United Artis See apes A DUKE FOR A DAY, a photoplay in two 
Inc. (PWH); 7Dec61; R26 . reels b Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. 
DANGEROUS CORNER, a photoplay in seven © 1May34; LP4678. Hal Roach Studiog 
CHAINED, a photoplay in eight reels by reel by RKO Radio Pictures: (PWH); 30Aug61 ; R281103. 
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. © 1Sep34; © 170ct34; LP5028. RKO Radio Pic- 
ae : ees Ee Ine. tures, a division of RKO General, 
jesePols Bue Inc. (PWH); 11Dec61; R286600. E 
THE CHURCH MOUSE, a photoplay in eight DARE DEVIL O'DARE, a photoplay in two 
reels by First National Pictures. reels by Vitaphone Corp. © 3Aug34; ae cL ey Ree Po etEe eee 
© 1Dec34; LP5134. United Artists LP4865. United Artists Associated, y_Wa os. Pictures, 

This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “The renewal number is unreadable in the OCR. The original registration number is missing from the text. The renewal claimant and date are also missing or garbled. Only the title and original date are clearly legible.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 34215–34222.

  CHAINED. 1934. 8 reels, sd., b&w.

    Credits: Producer, Hunt Stromberg; director, Clarence Brown;
    original story, Edgar Selwyn; screenplay, John Lee Mahin; film
    editor, Robert J. Kern; music score, Herbert Stothart.

    © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.; 1Sep34; LP4965.

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