Public Reel

THE LEGEND OF THE THIRSTING STONES

a treasure which lay hidden under a stone which went down to the water for a drink once every thousand years. Credits: Producer and director, Don Haldane; author, Haig P. Manoogian; narrator, Leslie Linder; music, Gerald Fried. Cast: Michael Brown, Jack Burnett, John Mezza, Betzi Durham, Leroy Stone

Registration MP1944 No renewal found

Term began
1950-08-15
Claimant
Films for Children, Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1977-1979 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1979 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1977 or 1978 volume; volumes searched: 1977, 1978, 1979.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number MP1944.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 9451–9462.

a treasure which lay hidden under a stone 
which went down to the water for a drink 
once every thousand years. 

Credits: Producer and director, Don 
Haldane; author, Haig P. Manoogian; narra- 
tor, Leslie Linder; music, Gerald Fried. 
Cast: Michael Brown, Jack Burnett, John 
Mezza, Betzi Durham, Leroy Stone. 

© Films for Children, Inc.; 15Aug50; 
MP1944, 

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