File:False Pretenses (1935) Betty Compson, Sidney Blackmer, and Irene Ware..jpg

[Screenshot from the American film False Pretenses (1935) with Betty Compson, Sidney Blackmer, and Irene Ware.] Error: {{Langx}}: text has italic markup (help)

This is a screen capture from a film in the Public Domain.

1935

Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation

The film is in the Public Domain in the United States. According to the Internet Archives, the copyright was not renewed by the Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation, or its successors. ^[1]

• A renewal search was done in film for the years 1962 and 1963. There were no listings for the title; there's no evidence of renewal for the film.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See Commons:Hirtle chart for further explanation. PD-US Public domain in the United States //en.wiki.x.io/wiki/File:False_Pretenses_(1935)_Betty_Compson,_Sidney_Blackmer,_and_Irene_Ware..jpg