Public Reel

KING OF THE CONGO

b&w, 35mm. Based on the adventures of the hero of the cartoon magazine, ''Thunda.'' : Producer, Sam Katzman; directors, Spencer Bennet, Wallace Grissell; sereenplay, George H. Plympton, Royal K. Cok, Arthur Hoerl; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Earl Turner. 1. Mission of Menace

Registration LP1628 Renewed

Term began
1952-01-03
Claimant
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE45942 filed 1980-01-15 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6943418)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 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 RE45942 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.09)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-15
Original cited
LP1628 / 1952-01-03
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6943418: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE45942, registered 1980-01-15, for original registration LP1628 published 1952-01-03.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 8985–8996.

Based on the adventures of the hero of the 
cartoon magazine, ''Thunda.'' © Columbia 
Pictures Corp. 

Credits: Producer, Sam Katzman; direc- 
tors, Spencer Bennet, Wallace Grissell; 
sereenplay, George H. Plympton, Royal K. 
Cok, Arthur Hoerl; music director, Mischa 
Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Earl Turner. 


1. Mission of Menace. © 3Jan52; LP1628. 

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