Candid Microphone

CANDID MICROPHONE. Columbia Pictures Corp., 1949. 1 reel each, sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the Allen A. Funt radio production of the same title. : Producers, The Blakes. Cast: Allen Funt. Series 1. 2

Uncertain The US record is unclear: no registration date parsed from the catalog entry.

Finding revision cdabc126, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration MP3954 Uncertain

Term began: not parsed
Claimant: 3Mar49 (in notice
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding: no registration date parsed from the catalog entry

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The catalog entry has a problem (missing date, or a number that does not fit its year), so the renewal check cannot be relied on.

Renewal R630722 (link: llm:number+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date: 1976-04-05
Original cited: M3954 / None
Source: Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 55795

Candid microphone. 
Columbia Pictures Corporation. 
M3954. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. 
(PWH); SApr76; R630722. 
R630723. 
Ser. 3, no. 5. By

This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “Serial part inferred from 'Ser. 1, no. 2.' in surrounding lines. Original number M3954 interpreted as MP3954. Date '€ 3éar49' read as 3Mar49 (1949-03-03) based on context and renewal date.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 2299–2309.

Pictures Corp., 1949. 1 reel each, sd., 
b&w, 35mm. Based on the Allen A. 
Funt radio production of the same title. 
© Columbia Pictures Corp. 

Credits: Producers, The Blakes. 
Cast: Allen Funt. 


Series 1. 
2. © 3Mar49 (in notice; 1948); MP3954.

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