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SELLING UP

16mm. Summary: Tells of the campaign conducted by the Watchmakers of Switzerland to educate the public on the merits of the quality watch and in the advantages of buying it in the jewelry store. Credits: Director and photographer, Harry W. Smith; narrator, Dwight Weist; sereenplay, Richard Hanser. ‘

Registration MP634 No renewal found

Term began
1950-11-15
Claimant
Swiss Federation of Watch Manufacturers
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)

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, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 45235–45248.

19 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. 

Summary: Tells of the campaign con- 
ducted by the Watchmakers of Switzerland 
to educate the public on the merits of the 
quality watch and in the advantages of 
buying it in the jewelry store. 

Credits: Director and photographer, 
Harry W. Smith; narrator, Dwight Weist; 
sereenplay, Richard Hanser. 

‘© Swiss Federation of Watch Manufac- 
turers; 15Nov50; MP634,. 

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