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BORROWED POWER

BORROWED POWER. AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 1951. Produced by Pennsylvania State College. 17 min., sd., color, 16mm. Summary: A young boy arrested for reckless driving learns that the driver is responsible for controlling the power of an automobile

Registration MP1978 No renewal found

Term began
1951-12-28
Claimant
AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
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)

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 no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 2289–2300.

BORROWED POWER. AAA Foundation for 
Traffic Safety, 1951. Produced by Pennsyl- 
vania State College. 17 min., sd., color, 
16mm. 

Summary: A young boy arrested for 
reckless driving learns that the driver is 
responsible for controlling the power of 
an automobile. 

© AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety; 
28Dec51; MP1978. 

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