A Coach for Cinderella

A Coach for Cinderella is a 1937 Technicolor industrial/sponsored film produced by the Jam Handy Organization for the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors. As a work published in the United States between 1928 and 1963, its copyright protection was dependent upon a timely renewal with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of its initial term. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the relevant volumes of the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) for Motion Pictures confirms that no renewal was filed for this title by General Motors, Jam Handy, or any successor in interest. Industrial and sponsored films from this era were frequently left to expire as their commercial value was tied to the specific product cycle (in this case, the 1937 Chevrolet line). Furthermore, the film is widely recognized in the archival community as being in the public domain. It is hosted as a public domain work by the Prelinger Archives and the Internet Archive, and it has been included in numerous public domain cartoon and commercial compilations without legal challenge. Because the initial copyright term expired without renewal, the work entered the public domain in 1965.