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Specialty Series) Summary: A comedy about a handy husband who tries to cut a door into his dining room. Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director, David Barclay; original story, Felix E. Feist, Joe Ansen; screenplay, James Gruen, David Barclay; film editor, Harry Komer. Cast: Dave O'Brien

Registration LP889 (part 5: IMPORTANT MINUTES (Filmstrip) Jam Handy Organization for Ralston Purina Co) Renewed

Term began
1951-02-28
Claimant
Loew's Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE10222 filed 1979-01-02 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6907705)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2047 (95 years from the 1951 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal RE10222 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.08)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-01-02
Original cited
LP889 / 1951-02-28
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6907705: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE10222, registered 1979-01-02, for original registration LP889 published 1951-02-28.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 5514–5526.

Smith Specialty Series) 

Summary: A comedy about a handy 
husband who tries to cut a door into his 
dining room. 

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete 
Smith; director, David Barclay; original 
story, Felix E. Feist, Joe Ansen; screen- 
play, James Gruen, David Barclay; film 
editor, Harry Komer. Cast: Dave O'Brien. 

© Loew's Inc.; 28Feb51; LP889. 

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