MELODY TIME
(Musical Featurette, no. 1) RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 1946. 18 min., sd., b&w., 35mm, Credits: Producer, George Bilson; director, Jack Scholl; film editor, Edward W. Williams; musical supervision, Norman Bennett. Cast: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller orchestra, Artie Malvin, Lillian Lane, and others
Registration MP1794 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1946-11-29
- Claimant
- RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., New York
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1973-1975 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1975 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1973 or 1974 volume; volumes searched: 1973, 1974, 1975.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1947, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig31121libr (OCR text), lines 6615–6628.
MELODY TIME. (Musical Featurette, no. 1) RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 1946. 18 min., sd., b&w., 35mm, Credits: Producer, George Bilson; director, Jack Scholl; film editor, Ed- ward W. Williams; musical super- vision, Norman Bennett. Cast: Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller orches- tra, Artie Malvin, Lillian Lane, and others, © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., New York; 29Nov46; MP1794.
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