DESERT ARABS
reel, si., b&w., 8mm. Summary: The desert Arabs travel by camel over wide stretches of Arabia and North Africa in search of food for their sheep and cattle. They are shown performing various household duties, answering the Moslem call to prayer, and stopping at an oasis to exchange goods and gossip
Registration MP3129 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1948-04-13
- Claimant
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1975-1977 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1977 (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 1975 or 1976 volume; volumes searched: 1975, 1976, 1977.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1948, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig321213lib (OCR text), lines 2977–2989.
Films, Inc., 1948. 1 reel, si., b&w., 8mm. Summary: The desert Arabs travel by camel over wide stretches of Arabia and North Africa in search of food for their sheep and cattle. They are shown per- forming various household duties, an- swering the Moslem call to prayer, and stopping at an oasis to exchange goods and gossip. © Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.; 13Apr48; MP3129.
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