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THE MAGNET

Liverpool lad preys on the boy's conscience and leads to a series of amusing adventures. Credits: Producer, Michael Balcon; director, Charles Frend; screenplay, T.E.B. Clarke; music, William Alwyn; editor, Bernard Gribble. Cast: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, William Fox, Meredith Edwards, Gladys Henson

Registration LP991 Renewed

Term began
1950-05-23
Claimant
Ealing Studios, Ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE1043 filed 1978-03-03 by EMI Films, Ltd. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6898526)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2046 (95 years from the 1950 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 RE1043 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
EMI Films, Ltd.
Renewal date
1978-03-03
Original cited
LP991 / 1950-05-23
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6898526: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE1043, registered 1978-03-03, for original registration LP991 published 1950-05-23.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 10360–10375.

net by a ten-year-old Liverpool lad preys on 
the boy's conscience and leads to a series of 
amusing adventures. 

Credits: Producer, Michael Balcon; 


director, Charles Frend; screenplay, T.E.B. 


Clarke; music, William Alwyn; editor, Ber- 
nard Gribble. Cast: Stephen Murray, Kay 
Walsh, William Fox, Meredith Edwards, 
Gladys Henson. 

© Ealing Studios, Ltd.; 23May50; LP991. 

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