ESKIMO HUNTERS: NORTHWESTERN ALASKA

e life of an Eskimo family in the Alaskan seashore village of Point Hope. Emphasizes the Eskimos' constant battle for survival in a rigorous climate and the importance of hunting in solving their basic problems of food, shelter, and clothing. Credits: Director, W. Kay Norton. United World Films, Inc

Registration MP2065 No renewal found

Term began: 1952-02-18
Claimant: —
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1979-1981 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since: 1 January 1981 (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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 4839–4850.

Summary: Depicts the life of an Eskimo 
family in the Alaskan seashore village of 
Point Hope. Emphasizes the Eskimos' 
constant battle for survival in a rigorous 
climate and the importance of hunting in 
solving their basic problems of food, shelter, 
and clothing. 

Credits: Director, W. Kay Norton. 

United World Films, Inc.; 18Feb52 (in 
notice: 1949); MP2065.

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