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THE WILLIE HOPPE STORY

THE WILLIE HOPPE STORY. Columbia Pictures Corp., 1951. 9 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (World of Sports Series) Summary: Willie Hoppe, champion for fifty years, demonstrates his skill at billiards. Credits: Producer and director, Harry Foster; music, Jack Shaindlin; commentator, Bill Stern

Registration MP1675 Renewed

Term began
1951-10-16
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE24493 filed 1979-05-04 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6921976)
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 RE24493 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-05-04
Original cited
MP1675 / 1951-10-16
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6921976: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE24493, registered 1979-05-04, for original registration MP1675 published 1951-10-16.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 49676–49689.

THE WILLIE HOPPE STORY. Columbia 
Pictures Corp., 1951. 9 min., sd., b&w, 
35mm. (World of Sports Series) 

Summary: Willie Hoppe, champion for 
fifty years, demonstrates his skill at bi- 
lliards. 

Credits: Producer and director, Harry 
Foster; music, Jack Shaindlin; commenta- 
tor, Bill Stern. 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 16Oct51; 
MP1675. 

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