Public Reel

MISTER BASKETBALL

5mm. (Sports Review Series) Summary: Presents George Mikan, the star of the Minneapolis Lakers, playing against a team of college basketball stars and opposing the New York Knickerbockers. Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; music director, Jack Shaindlin; narrator, Mel Allen; film editor, Arthur Lincer

Registration MP1783 Renewed

Term began
1951-07-13
Claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE29905 filed 1979-07-24 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6927387)
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 RE29905 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-07-24
Original cited
MP1783 / 1951-07-13
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6927387: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE29905, registered 1979-07-24, for original registration MP1783 published 1951-07-13.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 39299–39312.

35mm. (Sports Review Series) 

Summary: Presents George Mikan, the 
star of the Minneapolis Lakers, playing 
against a team of college basketball stars 
and opposing the New York Knickerbockers. 

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; music 
director, Jack Shaindlin; narrator, Mel 
Allen; film editor, Arthur Lincer. 


© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 
13Jul51; MP1783. 

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