Danger Flight

Danger Flight (1939) is a US production released by Monogram Pictures as part of the 'Tailspin Tommy' series. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during their 28th year of protection to extend copyright into a second term. If no renewal was filed, the work entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals that while the film was originally registered (LP9217, published October 25, 1939), no renewal record was ever filed in 1966 or 1967. This failure to renew is a common occurrence for Monogram's B-movie catalog. Consequently, the film entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 1968. The film is currently widely available on public domain aggregators and via distributors specializing in lapsed-copyright titles, such as Alpha Video.