Name: A Girl of the Limberlost
Director: Christy Cabanne
Released: 1934

A Girl of the Limberlost

1934 · Monogram Pictures · Dir. Christy Cabanne

Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.

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The film 'A Girl of the Limberlost' was released by Monogram Pictures on October 15, 1934. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a copyright renewal filing in the 28th year of their first term to remain protected. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for this 1934 production. While the original novel by Gene Stratton-Porter has seen multiple adaptations (including 1924, 1934, and 1945), each film's copyright status is independent. The 1934 version entered the public domain in the United States at the end of 1962 due to non-renewal. This is corroborated by its presence in public domain film catalogs and its widespread availability on archive.org and from PD-specialist distributors like Alpha Video, with no records of copyright enforcement by any successor to Monogram.

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