Public Reel

WATER IN THE AIR

AIR. Radford Pictures Inc., 1949. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Summary: A city boy visits the farm and discovers how water is drawn up from the earth. Simple kitchen experiments explain evaporation, condensation, and what causes water in the air to return to the earth as rain. An elementary science film

Registration MP4834 No renewal found

Term began
1949-03-01
Claimant
Radford Pictures Inc
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)

An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 39702–39714.

WATER IN THE AIR. Radford Pictures 

Inc., 1949. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. 

Summary: A city boy visits the farm and 
discovers how water is drawn up from the 
earth. Simple kitchen experiments explain 
evaporation, condensation, and what causes 
water in the air to return to the earth as 
rain. An elementary science film. 

© Radford Pictures Inc.; 1Mar49; 
MP4834, 

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