Twist All Night

Twist All Night (also known as 'The Continental Twist') was released in 1961 and registered for copyright by Keelou Productions on March 29, 1962 (LP21652). Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works from this era required a renewal filing in the 28th year of their initial term to maintain protection. For a 1962 registration, the renewal window was open in 1989 and 1990. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the U.S. Copyright Office online records shows no renewal registration for this title or its registration number. Since the film was published before 1964, renewal was not automatic. The failure to renew the copyright in the late 1980s caused the film to enter the public domain in the United States. This is confirmed by the film's inclusion in various public domain film catalogs and its presence on the Internet Archive without takedown notices from American International Pictures' successors (now MGM/Amazon). Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.