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ELI WHITNEY

hitney's invention of the cotton gin, which bolstered the economy of the South, and his experiments in the design and manufacture of muskets, which subsequently provided the technical basis for mass production. For high school and adult groups. Credits: Educational collaborator, Harold F. Williamson

Registration MP1740 No renewal found

Term began
1951-08-10
Claimant
Emerson Film Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1978-1980 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1980 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 33550–33561.

Summary: Dramatizes Eli Whitney's 
invention of the cotton gin, which bolstered 
the economy of the South, and his experi- 
ments in the design and manufacture of 
muskets, which subsequently provided the 
technical basis for mass production. For 
high school and adult groups. 

Credits: Educational collaborator, Harold 
F. Williamson. 

© Emerson Film Corp.; 10Aug51; MP1740. 

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