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CLOSE DECISIONS

Spotlight Series) Summary: Shows the umpire at work and emphasizes the importance of his decisions. Includes scenes of Bill McGowan's umpire school where the American League style is taught and George Barr's school which teaches the National League system. Credits: Director and narrator, Lew Fonseca

Registration MP1398 Renewed

Term began
1951-05-25
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE33189 filed 1979-09-04 by Harvey Films, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6930671)
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 RE33189 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Harvey Films, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-09-04
Original cited
MP1398 / 1951-05-25
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6930671: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE33189, registered 1979-09-04, for original registration MP1398 published 1951-05-25.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 32300–32313.

(Grantland Rice Spotlight Series) 

Summary: Shows the umpire at work and 
emphasizes the importance of his decisions. 
Includes scenes of Bill McGowan's umpire 
school where the American League style is 
taught and George Barr's school which 
teaches the National League system. 

Credits: Director and narrator, Lew 
Fonseca. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 25May51; 
MP1398. 

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