A Circus Romance

A CIRCUS ROMANCE. 1932. 643 ft.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1961, on the registry's reading: registration MP3491 of 1932 by The Van Beuren Corp was not renewed in the volumes searched.

Finding revision aa076a1f, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

John Foster, Harry Bailey.

Registration MP3491 No renewal found

Term began: 1932-06-25
Claimant: The Van Beuren Corp
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1959-1961 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
Conditional date: 1 January 1961, if no renewal was filed. The automated search result requires verification against the linked volumes.

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An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1959 or 1960 volume; volumes searched: 1959, 1960, 1961.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number MP3491.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 37730–37735.

  A CIRCUS ROMANCE. 1932. 643 ft.

    Credits: John Foster, Harry Bailey.

    © The Van Beuren Corp.; 25Jun32; MP3491.

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