Public Reel

RHYTHM ON THE REEF

THE REEF. Universal, 1952, 9 min., sd., b&w, 35mm, (Variety View, no. 201) Summary: Undersea photography of fish, eels, rays, a turtle, and a shark. Credits: Producer, Thomas Mead; director and photographer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau; writer, Allan Kitchel; narrator, Luis Van Rooten; editor, Ed Bartsch

Registration MP2060 Renewed

Term began
1952-02-18
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE21285 filed 1979-02-12 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6918768)
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 RE21285 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-02-12
Original cited
MP2060 / 1952-02-18
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6918768: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE21285, registered 1979-02-12, for original registration MP2060 published 1952-02-18.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 15979–15992.

RHYTHM ON THE REEF. Universal, 1952, 
9 min., sd., b&w, 35mm, (Variety View, 
no. 201) 

Summary: Undersea photography of fish, 
eels, rays, a turtle, and a shark. 

Credits: Producer, Thomas Mead; direc- 
tor and photographer, Jacques-Yves Coust- 
eau; writer, Allan Kitchel; narrator, Luis 
Van Rooten; editor, Ed Bartsch. 

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 18Feb52 
(in notice: 1951); MP2060. 

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