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CRASHING THE MOVIES

CRASHING THE MOVIES. (Pete Smith Specialty) Loew's Inc., 1950. An MGM picture. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; screenplay, Joe Ansen; film editor, Joseph Dietrick

Registration LP2823 No renewal found

Term began
1950-01-06
Claimant
Loew's Inc
Class
LP — published 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)

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 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 3765–3774.

CRASHING THE MOVIES. (Pete Smith 
Specialty) Loew's Inc., 1950. An MGM 
picture. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. 

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete 
Smith; screenplay, Joe Ansen; film 
editor, Joseph Dietrick. 

© Loew's Inc.; 6Jan50 (in notice: 1948); 
LP2823. 

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