Under the Banana Tree

UNDER THE BANANA TREE. 1 reel. (Soundies no. 646-1-20) Directed by Dave Gould.

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1975, on the registry's reading: registration MP424 of 1946 by Soundies Distributing Corp. Of America, Inc was not renewed in the volumes searched.

Finding revision ec182d28, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration MP424 No renewal found

Term began: 1946-03-25
Claimant: Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1973-1975 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
Conditional date: 1 January 1975, 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 1973 or 1974 volume; volumes searched: 1973, 1974, 1975.

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 MP424.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1946, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig191libr (OCR text), lines 87833–87840.

UNDER THE BANANA TREE. 1 reel. 
(Soundies no. 646-1-20) Directed by Dave Gould. 
© 3-25-46; 1c 4-3-46, synopsis; 1c 4-18-46; 
Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., 
author and claimant, Chicago; M 424. 


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