Public Reel

MR. TENNIS

n., sd., b&w, 35mm. (World of Sports Series) Summary: Senor Pancho Segura, United States professional tennis champion, demonstrates his techniques on the court at the Concord Hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Credits: Producer and director, Harry Foster; commentator, Bill Stern; music, Jack Shaindlin

Registration MP1720 Renewed

Term began
1951-04-26
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE21897 filed 1979-04-17 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6919380)
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 RE21897 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.50)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-04-17
Original cited
MP1720 / 1951-04-26
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6919380: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE21897, registered 1979-04-17, for original registration MP1720 published 1951-04-26.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 39347–39360.

9 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (World of Sports 
Series) 

Summary: Senor Pancho Segura, United 
States professional tennis champion, demon- 
strates his techniques on the court at the 
Concord Hotel in the Catskill Mountains. 

Credits: Producer and director, Harry 
Foster; commentator, Bill Stern; music, 
Jack Shaindlin. 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 26Apr51; 
MP1720. 

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