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w potential Olympic stars are taught to swim at an early age in St. Petersburg, Fla. Shows the training received by teen-age girls at the St. Petersburg Charm School. Credits: Directed and written by Justin Herman; narrator, Ward Wilson; music director, Winston Sharples; film editor, Robert Blauvelt

Registration MP1674 Renewed

Term began
1951-10-05
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE33194 filed 1979-09-04 by Harvey Films, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6930676)
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 RE33194 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Harvey Films, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-09-04
Original cited
MP1674 / 1951-10-05
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6930676: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE33194, registered 1979-09-04, for original registration MP1674 published 1951-10-05.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 39102–39114.

Summary: Explains how potential Olympic 
stars are taught to swim at an early age in 
St. Petersburg, Fla. Shows the training 
received by teen-age girls at the St. Peters- 
burg Charm School. 

Credits: Directed and written by Justin 
Herman; narrator, Ward Wilson; music 
director, Winston Sharples; film editor, 
Robert Blauvelt. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 5Oct51; 
MP1674. 

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