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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