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e. 8 min., -d., b&w, 35mm. = Suggested by material appearing in Pageant magazine. (Pete Smith Specialty Series. Have You Ever Wondered? No. 4) Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director, David Barclay; screenplay, James Gruen, David Barclay; film editor, Joseph Dietrick. Cast: Dave O'Brien

Registration LP1347 Renewed

Term began
1951-10-30
Claimant
Loew's Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE10613 filed 1979-01-02 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6908096)
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 RE10613 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-01-02
Original cited
LP1347 / 1951-10-30
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6908096: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE10613, registered 1979-01-02, for original registration LP1347 published 1951-10-30.

Renewal R675825 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant
National Telefilm Associates, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
Original cited
L1347 / 120ec47
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1977: Internet Archive 1977motionpictur3311213libr, OCR text line 185189
8675825. 
Monkeyshines. By Paramount Pictures, 
Inc. (Speaking of animais) 9 120ec47; 
L1347. National Telefilm Associates, Inc. 
(PWH); 220ct75; 8675825. 
R675826. 

Low confidence: the original date in this record is unreadable, so the link rests on the number and the renewal year.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 36678–36697.

An MGM picture. 8 min., -d., b&w, 35mm. 


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Suggested by material appearing in Pageant 
magazine. (Pete Smith Specialty Series. 
Have You Ever Wondered? No. 4) 

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete 
Smith; director, David Barclay; screenplay, 
James Gruen, David Barclay; film editor, 
Joseph Dietrick. Cast: Dave O'Brien. 

© Loew's Inc.; 300ct51 (in notice: 1950); 
LP1347, 

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