THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK
b&w, 35mm. (Pete Smith Specialty Series) Summary: A comedy which shows that calm people are not always what they seem. Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director, David Barclay; original story and screenplay, Donald S. Brodie, David Barclay; film editor, Joseph Dietrick. Cast: Dave O'Brien
Registration LP1273 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1951-10-04
- Claimant
- Loew's Inc
- Class
- LP — published 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 46286–46299.
An MGM picture. 9 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Pete Smith Specialty Series) Summary: A comedy which shows that calm people are not always what they seem. Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director, David Barclay; original story and screenplay, Donald S. Brodie, David Barclay; film editor, Joseph Dietrick. Cast: Dave O'Brien. © Loew's Inc.; 4Oct51 (in notice: 1949); LP 1273.
Copies on the Internet Archive
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