Public Reel

TOO BUSY TO WORK

Too busy to work; based upon The torchbearers, by George Kelly and Your Uncle Dudley, by Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson, and the characters created by Katherine Kavanaugh.

Registration LP9459 Renewed

Term began
1939-11-17
Claimant
Twentieth century-Fox film corp.
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R417116 filed 1967-09-07 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp (number+date; CCE 1967, OCR line 40527)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2035 (95 years from the 1939 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 R417116 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp (PWH)
Renewal date
1967-09-07
Original cited
L9459 / 17Nov39
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1967: Internet Archive catalogofc19673211213libr, OCR text line 40527
R421605. 
TOO BUSY TO WORK, a photoplay in seven 
reels by Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
Corp. © 17Nov39; L9459. Twentieth 
Century-Fox Film Corp. (PWH); 
7Sep67; R417116. 
TOO MANY GIRLS, a photoplay in nine 

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1940, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig131libr (OCR text), lines 13703–13710.

Too busy to work; based upon The 
torchbearers, by George Kelly and 
Your Uncle Dudley, by Howard Lind- 
say and Bertrand Robinson, and the 
characters created by Katherine 
Kavanaugh. © Nov. 17, 1939; L 
9459; Twentieth century-Fox film 
corp., New York. 2154 

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