Rhythm of the Rio Grande

Rhythm of the Rio Grande.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1969, on the registry's reading: registration LP9472 of 1940 by Monogram Pictures Corp was not renewed in the volumes searched.

Finding revision 959e9852, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration LP9472 No renewal found

Term began: 1940-03-01
Claimant: Monogram pictures corp.
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1967-1969 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
Conditional date: 1 January 1969, 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 1967 or 1968 volume; volumes searched: 1967, 1968, 1969.

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 LP9472.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 13528–13535.

Renfrew rides north. See Renfrew of 
the Royal Mounted in Murder on the 
Yukon. 


Rhythm of the Rio Grande. © Mar. 1, 
1940; L 9472; Monogram pictures 
corp., New York. 2125

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