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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