Charlie Chaplin Festival

You can always call up the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills
(310-247-3020) and ask the reference librarian to look it up in THE
FILM SUPERLIST. He'll tell you in thirty seconds whether the copyright
was renewed or not, and all it'll cost you is the phone call.



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David Pearson wrote:

> And the Margaret Herrick Library's answer to my copyright question is...
> They don't know,
>
> "Charlie Chaplin Festival" isn't listed in THE FILM SUPERLIST. Now, what
> does that mean?


A possibility is that THE CHARLIE CHAPLIN FESTIVAL was never
copyrighted in the first place. I wonder if its sister film, THE
CHARLIE CHAPLIN CARNIVAL, ever got copyrighted.

Anyway, if there's no record of a renewed copyright, you're safe.


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On 2/6/06 12:18 PM, in article
1139249894.756698.5930.RemoveThis@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com, "Richard Carnahan"
<rfcsac627n.RemoveThis@aol.com> wrote:

> I doubt if anyone bothered to renew the 1938 copyright. Tom Dunahoo
> of Thunderbird Films used to sell 16mm prints of FESTIVAL--if I recall
> corraectly--and never got in trouble for it, although he got in a lot
> of trouble for thinking the first season of STAR TREK was public domain
> and sold super 8mm and 16mm prints of that.

LOL.

Thanks. I was thinking about posting the whole thing online at
silent-movies.org as a streaming MP4 file, along with some other PD titles I
have before they go to dust on VHS.


DBP
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On 2/6/06 12:36 PM, in article
1139250984.828084.173570.DeleteThis@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com, "Shush"
<shushfilmseznospam.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You can always call up the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills
> (310-247-3020) and ask the reference librarian to look it up in THE
> FILM SUPERLIST. He'll tell you in thirty seconds whether the copyright
> was renewed or not, and all it'll cost you is the phone call.
>
>
>
> --Shush--

COOL!!! Thanks!

:-)

DBP
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On 2/6/06 12:46 PM, in article C00CF5A5.1F7D2%dbpearson@charter.net, "David
Pearson" <dbpearson.TakeThisOut@charter.net> wrote:

> On 2/6/06 12:36 PM, in article
> 1139250984.828084.173570.TakeThisOut@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com, "Shush"
> <shushfilmseznospam.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> You can always call up the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills
>> (310-247-3020) and ask the reference librarian to look it up in THE
>> FILM SUPERLIST. He'll tell you in thirty seconds whether the copyright
>> was renewed or not, and all it'll cost you is the phone call.
>>
>>
>>
>> --Shush--
>
> COOL!!! Thanks!
>
> :-)
>
> DBP
>

And the Margaret Herrick Library's answer to my copyright question is...
They don't know,

"Charlie Chaplin Festival" isn't listed in THE FILM SUPERLIST. Now, what
does that mean? Could Chaplin have simply skipped the copyright process, as
these films were copyrighted at the time?

DBP
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On 2/6/06 2:21 PM, in article
1139257277.909654.326360.RemoveThis@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com, "Shush"
<shushfilmseznospam.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> David Pearson wrote:
>
>> And the Margaret Herrick Library's answer to my copyright question is...
>> They don't know,
>>
>> "Charlie Chaplin Festival" isn't listed in THE FILM SUPERLIST. Now, what
>> does that mean?
>
>
> A possibility is that THE CHARLIE CHAPLIN FESTIVAL was never
> copyrighted in the first place. I wonder if its sister film, THE
> CHARLIE CHAPLIN CARNIVAL, ever got copyrighted.

Good question.
There's a third one called CHARLIE CHAPLIN CAVALCADE too. The three films
cover all twelve Mutuals. Interesting that they appear to be organized in
the same way as the Shepard DVDs. I wonder if it is some sort of official
pattern tp them?

> Anyway, if there's no record of a renewed copyright, you're safe.

Excellent, I'll be posting it online then.

DBP
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shushfilmseznospam.DeleteThis@yahoo.com (Shush) wrote:

>      You can always call up the Margaret
>Herrick Library in Beverly Hills
>(310-247-3020) and ask the reference
>librarian to look it up in THE FILM
>SUPERLIST. He'll tell you in thirty
>seconds whether the copyright was
>renewed or not, and all it'll cost you is
>the phone call.

I urge any and all to visit this library,
which I believe is located on San Vicente
and Olympic. It is the Vahalla of
film aficionados and a template
for all film literature collections.







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"Timeo Danaos et dona ferentis."
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I wonder if the music scores on these might still be copyrighted?
Seems everytime someone releases the Chaplin Mutuals in the RKO/Van
Beuren versions these days, they always replace the soundtrack.
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> Thanks. I was thinking about posting the whole thing online at
> silent-movies.org as a streaming MP4 file, along with some other PD titles
I
> have before they go to dust on VHS.

Hello, David,

Please consider also posting it to archive.org so it will be permanently
available to everyone in many different formats. :)


Darren
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