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The Cruise of the Jasper B

1926 · Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California · Dir. James W. Horne

The film stars actor Rod La Rocque as Jerry Cleggert, a good-natured descendant of an infamous clan of pirates who resides aboard the rickety ship Jasper B. Cleggert is informed that in order to inherit a large inheritance, he must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday-- otherwise he would relinquish all claims to his impending fortune. Jerry soon meets his ideal would-be bride Agatha Fairhaven and the two immediately fall in love. Complications arise when Jerry's cousin, the dastardly lawyer Reginald Maltravers claims Agatha as his own. The courting couple suffer a series of mishaps on the way to altar; they are waylaid en route by a trio of bandits, escape from a runaway taxi cab, and outrun a mob of unscrupulous state authorities.

Confidence
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Why this status applies

Under the 1909 and 1976 Copyright Acts, all works published or registered in the United States before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. This film was released in 1926 and registered for copyright in the same year by Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California with the registration number LP23412. Because the maximum possible copyright term for works published in 1926 was 95 years (expiring on December 31, 2021), this film graduated into the public domain on January 1, 2022. No renewal search is required to confirm this status, as the statutory expiration date for all 1926 works has passed regardless of whether a renewal was filed.
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Supporting facts

  • Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE), Motion Pictures 1912-1939 (Listing LP23412)
  • Hurst, Richard Maurice. Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain
  • AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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