THE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
ummary: Columbug youthful dreams of discovering a new route to India are realized when he sets sail under the Spanish flag. He dies without knowing the importance of his discovery of the continent of North America, Credits: Director, Walter Colmes; film editor, Jason Bernie; screenplay, Jerry Warner
Registration LP1636 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1948-03-15
- Claimant
- Emerson Film Corp
- 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.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1948, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig321213lib (OCR text), lines 12664–12676.
Summary: Columbug youthful dreams of discovering a new route to India are realized when he sets sail under the Spanish flag. He dies without knowing the importance of his discovery of the continent of North America, Credits: Director, Walter Colmes; film editor, Jason Bernie; screenplay, Jerry Warner. © Emerson Film Corp.; 15Mar48; LP1636,
Copies on the Internet Archive
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