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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Emerson Film Corp. Released by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 1950, 17 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Summary: Dramatizes episodes from the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes— doctor, political lecturer, and author—explaining the reasons for his eminence in our national cultural history

Registration MP339 No renewal found

Term began
1950-06-07
Claimant
Emerson Film Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a 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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 41887–41903.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Emerson 
Film Corp. Released by Encyclopaedia 


Britannica Films, 1950, 17 min., sd., 
b&w, 16mm. 

Summary: Dramatizes episodes from 
the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes— doctor, 
political lecturer, and author—explaining 


the reasons for his eminence in our nation- 


al cultural history. 
© Emerson Film Corp.; 7Jun50; MP339. 

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