JAPANESE FAMILY
daily routine and normal activities of a post-war Japanese family of silk weavers who live in Kyoto, Japan. Japanese background music played on native instruments. Credits: Producer, Julien Bryan; director, William James; written by Basil Beyea; research, Omar Shapli; film editor, Joseph E. Dushock
Registration MP1826 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1950-01-30
- Claimant
- International Film Foundation, Inc
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1977-1979 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1979 (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 1977 or 1978 volume; volumes searched: 1977, 1978, 1979.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 37146–37158.
Summary: The daily routine and normal activities of a post-war Japanese family of silk weavers who live in Kyoto, Japan. Japanese background music played on native instruments. Credits: Producer, Julien Bryan; direc- tor, William James; written by Basil Beyea; research, Omar Shapli; film editor, Joseph E. Dushock. © International Film Foundation, Inc.; 30Jan50; MP1826.
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