ELMER THE GREAT

ELMER THE GREAT. Presented by First National Pictures, Inc. and The Vitaphone Corp. 8 reels, sd. Based on the play by Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan.

Director, Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay, Tom Geraghty.

Registration LP3799 No renewal found

Term began

1933-04-13

Claimant

First National Pictures, Inc

Class

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

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1960-1962 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections

In the public domain since

1 January 1962 (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 1960 or 1961 volume; volumes searched: 1960, 1961, 1962.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 60511–60518.

  ELMER THE GREAT. Presented by First National Pictures, Inc. and The
    Vitaphone Corp. 8 reels, sd. Based on the play by Ring Lardner and
    George M. Cohan.

    Credits: Director, Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay, Tom Geraghty.

    © First National Pictures, Inc.; 13Apr33; LP3799.

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