Father Nile

The film 'Father Nile' was released in the United States in 1932 (copyrighted in late 1931/early 1932 by Cine-Art). Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works from this era were granted an initial 28-year term of protection, which could be extended for an additional 28 years (later 47, then 67) if a renewal was filed with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term. For a 1932 release, the renewal window would have occurred in 1959 or 1960. A thorough search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, the Penn Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), and David Pierce’s 'Motion Picture Copyrights and Renewals 1950–1959' yields no record of a renewal for this title or its production company. Because the copyright was not renewed within the statutory timeframe, the work entered the public domain in the United States upon the expiration of its first term in 1960. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.