A Ride for Cinderella

A Ride for Cinderella is a Technicolor promotional theatrical short produced by the Jam Handy Organization for the Chevrolet Motor Company. For films published in the United States between 1928 and 1963, copyright protection was dependent on a valid registration and a subsequent renewal filing with the U.S. Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term. A search of the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) and the Stanford Copyright Renewal database indicates that while many Jam Handy industrial films were registered at the time of release, this specific title was never renewed. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, failure to renew the copyright in the 28th year caused the work to fall into the public domain immediately upon the expiration of the first term. Consequently, this film entered the public domain in 1965. Furthermore, the film is widely recognized as public domain by film archives and is hosted by the Prelinger Archives and the Internet Archive without restriction. It is frequently included in collections of public domain 'industrial' and 'sponsored' cinema.