Public Reel

A CANOE EXPEDITION

oring Trail Skills Series) Summary: Shows a group of young men being trained in trail skills, follows them by canoe and portage through the lake country of Minnesota, and reveals the companionship which results under such conditions, Stresses the preparation and work involved in exploring activities

Registration LP285 No renewal found

Term began
1950-07-31
Claimant
Boy Scouts of America
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
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 32588–32599.

(Exploring Trail Skills Series) 

Summary: Shows a group of young men 
being trained in trail skills, follows them 
by canoe and portage through the lake 
country of Minnesota, and reveals the 
companionship which results under such 
conditions, Stresses the preparation and 
work involved in exploring activities. 

© Boy Scouts of America; 31Jul50; 
LP285. 

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