Public Reel

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.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP1636.

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, 

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