THE THING
ch has come to Earth in a space ship. Credits: Producer, Howard Hawks; associate producer, Edward Lasker; director, Christian Nyby; screenplay, Charles Lederer; music, Dimitri Tiomkin; film editor, Roland Gross. Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young
Registration LP1053 Renewed
- Term began
- 1951-04-04
- Claimant
- RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE50597 filed 1979-12-19 by RKO General, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6948073)
- 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 RE50597 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.31)
- Renewal claimant
- RKO General, Inc.
- Renewal date
- 1979-12-19
- Original cited
- LP1053 / 1951-04-04
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6948073: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE50597, registered 1979-12-19, for original registration LP1053 published 1951-04-04.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 46471–46483.
World" which has come to Earth in a space ship. Credits: Producer, Howard Hawks; asso- ciate producer, Edward Lasker; director, Christian Nyby; screenplay, Charles Leder- er; music, Dimitri Tiomkin; film editor, Roland Gross. Cast: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young. © RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 4Apr51; LP1053.
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