Public Reel

LIGHTER THAN AIR

c.; 25Feb52; JP1176. LIGHTER THAN AIR. Vitaphone Corp., 1951. 10 min., sd., bkw, 35mm. A Warner Bros. short subject. Summary: The story of man's conquest of the skies by balloon, blimp, and zeppelin. Credits: Directed and written by Robert Youngson; narrator, Dwight Weist; film editor, Albert Helmes

Registration MP1979 Renewed

Term began
1951-12-30
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE12750 filed 1979-01-05 by Pathe News, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6910233)
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 RE12750 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Pathe News, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-01-05
Original cited
MP1979 / 1951-12-30
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6910233: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE12750, registered 1979-01-05, for original registration MP1979 published 1951-12-30.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 9695–9709.

© Young America Films, Inc.; 25Feb52; 
JP1176. 


LIGHTER THAN AIR. Vitaphone Corp., 
1951. 10 min., sd., bkw, 35mm. A Warner 
Bros. short subject. 

Summary: The story of man's conquest 
of the skies by balloon, blimp, and zeppelin. 
Credits: Directed and written by Robert 

Youngson; narrator, Dwight Weist; film 
editor, Albert Helmes. 
© The Vitaphone Corp.; 30Dec51; MP1979. 

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