A Very Fine Lady

The film 'A Very Fine Lady' is a comedic short produced by Educational Pictures (Christie Film Company) and released in late 1928. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a secondary renewal filing in their 28th year to prevent the copyright from expiring and entering the public domain. Research of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for this title. Educational Pictures and its associated Christie shorts saw high rates of copyright lapse, and this specific title is listed in the 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1894-1939)' by D. Richard Baer as a work for which no renewal was discovered. Because the initial 28-year term expired in 1956 without a renewal filing, the film entered the public domain in the United States.