THE SONG OF MID-AMERICA
first hundred years of the Illinois Central Railroad. Credits: Producer, Helen Tieken Geraghty; director, Bill Hobin; book and lyrics, Ben Aronin; composer and music director. Isaac Van Groce; editor, James E. Smith. Cast: Jess M. Pugh, William Brister, Stanley Gordon, Aristides Copulos, Leo Curley
Registration MP1633 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1951-08-10
- Claimant
- Illinois Central Railroad Co
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1978-1980 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1980 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1978 or 1979 volume; volumes searched: 1978, 1979, 1980.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 45148–45160.
first hundred years of the Illinois Central Railroad. Credits: Producer, Helen Tieken Geragh- ty; director, Bill Hobin; book and lyrics, Ben Aronin; composer and music director. Isaac Van Groce; editor, James E. Smith. Cast: Jess M. Pugh, William Brister, Stanley Gordon, Aristides Copulos, Leo Curley. © Illinois Central Railroad Co.; 10Aug51; MP1633.
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