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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