HIS GIRL FRIDAY

His girl Friday; from the play The front page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

Registration LP9305 No renewal found

Term began: 1939-12-30
Claimant: Columbia pictures corp.
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1966-1968 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1968 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

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 no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1966 or 1967 volume; volumes searched: 1966, 1967, 1968.

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 LP9305.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 2745–2752.

His girl Friday; from the play The 
front page, by Ben Hecht and Charles 
MacArthur. © Dec. 30, 1939; 2 c. 
Jan. 2, 1940; descr. Jan. 3; L 9305; 
Columbia pictures corp., Los yor 


Hornet trapped. See Green Hornet.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
His Girl Friday	1940	1,302,095	Comedy_Films, feature_films
His Girl Friday iPod	1940	54,888	Comedy_Films, feature_films
His Girl Friday	1940	51,369	Comedy_Films, feature_films
His Girl Friday 1940	1940	37,318	opensource_movies, community
His Girl Friday ( 1940)	1940	33,952	feature_films_unsorted, feature_films

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