THEY'RE OFF
w, 35mm. Summary: Turf champions of yesterday and today. Includes scenes of Man O'War and Ponder, the Hambletonian, the Preakness, the Kentucky Derby, and the Grand National Steeplechase. Credits: Directed and written by Robert Youngson; narrators, Clem McCarthy, Dan Donaldson; editor, Albert Helmes
Registration MP4721 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1949-11-07
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1976-1978 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1978 (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 1976 or 1977 volume; volumes searched: 1976, 1977, 1978.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 37454–37466.
35mm. Summary: Turf champions of yesterday and today. Includes scenes of Man O'War and Ponder, the Hambletonian, the Preak- ness, the Kentucky Derby, and the Grand National Steeplechase. Credits: Directed and written by Robert Youngson; narrators, Clem McCarthy, Dan Donaldson; editor, Albert Helmes. © The Vitaphone Corp.; 7Nov49; MP4721.
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