EARTHWORM TRACTORS

EARTHWORM TRACTORS. Presented by First National Pictures, Inc. and the Vitaphone Corp. 1936. 69 min., sd. From the stories by William Hazlett Upson.

Director, Raymond Enright; screenplay, Richard Macauley, Joe Traub, Hugh Cummings; music director, Leo F. Forbstein; film editor, Doug Gould.

Registration LP6462 No renewal found

Term began

1936-07-14

Claimant

Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1963-1965 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1965 (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 1963 or 1964 volume; volumes searched: 1963, 1964, 1965.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 59166–59175.

  EARTHWORM TRACTORS. Presented by First National Pictures, Inc. and the
    Vitaphone Corp. 1936. 69 min., sd. From the stories by William
    Hazlett Upson.

    Credits: Director, Raymond Enright; screenplay, Richard Macauley,
    Joe Traub, Hugh Cummings; music director, Leo F. Forbstein; film
    editor, Doug Gould.

    © Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 14Jul36; LP6462.

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