Public Reel

COMMON CLAY

COMMON CLAY. Presented by William Fox. 1930. 9 reels, sd. From the play by Cleves Kinkead.

Producer and director, Victor Fleming; screenplay, Jules Furthman; film editor, Irene Morra.

Registration LP1369 Copyright term expired

Term began
1930-06-14
Claimant
Fox Film Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
copyright term began 1930-06-14; 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 R195358 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1957-07-10
Original cited
L1369 / 14Jun30
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1957: Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li, OCR text line 45281
M1537. U. M. & M. TV Corp. (PWH); 
30Aug57; R198396. 
COMMON CLAY, a photoplay in nine 
reels by Fox Film Corp. © 14Jun30; 
L1369. Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
Corp. (PWH); 10Ju157; R195358. 
COMMON SALT, a motion picture in one 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 41036–41043.

  COMMON CLAY. Presented by William Fox. 1930. 9 reels, sd. From the
    play by Cleves Kinkead.

    Credits: Producer and director, Victor Fleming; screenplay, Jules
    Furthman; film editor, Irene Morra.

    © Fox Film Corp.; 14Jun30; LP1369.

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