Public Reel

THE GREAT SWINDLE

ummary: Harassed by shortages, Tom Grey votes for the removal of price controls after reading NAM propaganda. When prices rise, he views a Union film, “The Big Squeeze, which places the blame for high prices on monopoly control of our economy, and points out the advantages of membership in the Union

Registration LP1690 No renewal found

Term began
1948-02-01
Claimant
Carl Aldo Marzani trading as Union Films
Class
LP — published 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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1948, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig321213lib (OCR text), lines 4439–4449.

Summary: Harassed by shortages, Tom 
Grey votes for the removal of price con- 
trols after reading NAM propaganda. When 
prices rise, he views a Union film, “The 
Big Squeeze, which places the blame for 
high prices on monopoly control of our 
economy, and points out the advantages of 
membership in the Union. 

© Carl Aldo Marzani trading as Union 
Films; 1Feb48; LP1690. 

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