A Bride for Henry

The film 'A Bride for Henry' was originally released in the United States by Monogram Pictures on September 29, 1937. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered or published with notice between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection for a second term. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals that no renewal was ever filed for this production. Specifically, the original registration (LP7442) would have required a renewal between September 1964 and September 1965. Because Monogram Pictures often failed to renew their B-movie catalog, and no successor in interest (such as Allied Artists) filed the paperwork, the copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term. Today, the film is widely recognized as being in the public domain and is distributed by numerous PD-specialist labels, including Alpha Video and Mill Creek Entertainment, and is freely available on the Internet Archive without copyright challenge.