Companionate Trouble

The film identified is likely 'Companionate Trouble' (1928), a Christie Comedy short featuring 'the Crazy' (Bobby Vernon). Films released in the United States prior to 1929 entered the public domain 95 years after publication. As a 1928 production, the copyright expired on January 1, 2024, at the latest, regardless of renewal status. Even if the film were released slightly later, an exhaustive search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Catalog of Copyright Entries for Educational Pictures/Christie Comedies from 1955 to 1957 (the 28-year renewal window) shows that many shorts in this series were never renewed. However, the 1928 release date provides a definitive expiration under the current U.S. copyright term for works published before 1929.