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THE CAPE ANN STORY

THE CAPE ANN STORY. The Princeton Film Center, Inc. © 1950. 2,346 ft., b&w, 35mm. Summary: A story of life in the Cape Ann district north of Boston, emphasizing conditions since 1929. Includes the modernization of the shipbuilding industry for the war effort and the expansion of the fishing industry

Registration MU5138 No renewal found

Term began
1950-05-01
Claimant
The Princeton Film Center, Inc
Class
MU — unpublished motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1977-1979 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1979 (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.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1977 or 1978 volume; volumes searched: 1977, 1978, 1979.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 2433–2446.

THE CAPE ANN STORY. The Princeton 
Film Center, Inc. © 1950. 2,346 ft., 
b&w, 35mm. 

Summary: A story of life in the Cape 
Ann district north of Boston, emphasizing 
conditions since 1929. Includes the mod- 
ernization of the shipbuilding industry for 
the war effort and the expansion of the 
fishing industry. 

© The Princeton Film Center, Inc.; 
title & descr., 17May50; 5 prints, 1May50; 
MU5138. 

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