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)
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 no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1978 or 1979 volume; volumes searched: 1978, 1979, 1980.
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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