THE EMPEROR JONES
THE EMPEROR JONES. Released by United Artists. 1933. 9 reels, sd. Based upon the play by Eugene O'Neill.
Director, Dudley Murphy; screenplay, Du-Bose Heyward.
Registration LP4347 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1933-09-29
- Claimant
- John Krimsky & Gifford Cochran, 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 60803–60809.
THE EMPEROR JONES. Released by United Artists. 1933. 9 reels, sd.
Based upon the play by Eugene O'Neill.
Credits: Director, Dudley Murphy; screenplay, Du-Bose Heyward.
© John Krimsky & Gifford Cochran, Inc.; 29Sep33; LP4347.
Copies on the Internet Archive
| Item | Year | Downloads | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Emperor Jones | 1933 | 64,996 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| The Emperor Jones | 1933 | 2,871 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| The Emperor Jones (1933) | 1933 | 289 | feature_films_unsorted, feature_films |
| The Emperor Jones (1933) | 1933 | 120 | opensource_movies, fav-eqeknj7 |
| The Emperor Jones (1933) | 1933 | 93 | opensource_movies, fav-bornbohemian |
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