Public Domain
365 Nights in Hollywood
1934 · Fox Film Corp. · Dir. George Marshall
Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school's owner to bilk a wealthy young man out of the funds he has supplied to shoot a movie starring pretty student Alice Perkins. But Jimmie hopes to bilk the bilkers by actually completing the movie as ostensibly planned.
Confidence
95
— Legal Reasoning —
Why this status applies
Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during their 28th year of protection to remain under copyright. '365 Nights in Hollywood' was registered for copyright by Fox Film Corp. on October 25, 1934, under registration number LP5063.
A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no record of a renewal filing for this title in 1961 or 1962 (the 27th and 28th years of its term). Because the copyright was not renewed, the film entered the public domain in the United States at the end of its first 28-year term, effective January 1, 1963. Its presence in several public domain film catalogs and on the Internet Archive further supports this status.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) Motion Pictures 1912-1939
- Stanford Copyright Renewal Database (https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals)
- Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1894-1939), Volume 1
- AFI Catalog of Feature Films (1931-1940)
Research summary based on cited sources, not legal advice. Always consult a qualified copyright attorney before commercial use.