Public Reel

MARS ATTACKS THE WORLD

MARS ATTACKS THE WORLD. 1938. 7 reels, sd. Based on the newspaper feature "Flash Gordon" by Alex Raymond.

Associate producer, Barney A. Sarecky; directors, Ford Beebe, Robert Hill; original story and screenplay, Ray Trampe, Norman S. Hall, Wyndham Gittens.

Registration LP8436 Renewed

Term began
1938-11-23
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding
renewal R3575616 filed (date unreadable) by Universal Pictures Co., Ine (title+window; CCE 1965, OCR line 43413)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2034 (95 years from the 1938 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R3575616 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Ine (PWH)
Renewal date
Original cited
LP8456 / 25Nov58
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1965: Internet Archive catalogofc19653191213libr, OCR text line 43413
MARS ATTACKS THE WORLD, a photoplay in 
seven reels by Universal Pictures 
Co. © 25Nov58; LP8456. Universal 
Pictures Co., Ine. (PWH); 1Dec65; 
R3575616. 
MECHANICAL HANDYMAN, & motion picture 

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 146509–146517.

  MARS ATTACKS THE WORLD. 1938. 7 reels, sd. Based on the newspaper
    feature "Flash Gordon" by Alex Raymond.

    Credits: Associate producer, Barney A. Sarecky; directors, Ford
    Beebe, Robert Hill; original story and screenplay, Ray Trampe,
    Norman S. Hall, Wyndham Gittens.

    © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 23Nov38; LP8436.

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