Public Domain
The Concert Kid
1934 · Educational Pictures / Fox Film Corporation · Dir. Sid Marcus
Oopie is to give a violin concert, but doesn't want to play. Scrappy gives him a stick of chewing gum, which calms him. However, the gum gets on the two of them.
Confidence
95
— Legal Reasoning —
Why this status applies
The Concert Kid (1934) is a musical short film directed by Charles Lamont, featuring The Meglin Kiddies. It was originally registered for copyright by Educational Pictures, Inc. under registration number LP5081 on October 5, 1934. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal during their 28th year of protection to extend copyright into a second term.
Searches of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) show no renewal record for this title. For a 1934 registration, a renewal would have needed to be filed in 1961 or 1962. The absence of a renewal filing means the copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term, entering the public domain in the United States on January 1, 1963. The film is cited in the 'Film Superlist' (Baer) as a non-renewed work.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE): Motion Pictures 1912–1939
- Stanford Copyright Renewal Database (1934 registrations)
- Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1894-1939) by D. Richard Baer
- IMDb: The Concert Kid (1934)
Research summary based on cited sources, not legal advice. Always consult a qualified copyright attorney before commercial use.