Public Reel

SEEING CEYLON

ur of Ceylon showing the life, dress, customs, and industries of the natives. Includes scenes of Buddhist temples, the Peradinya Gardens, Mount Lavinia, Colombo, and Kandy. Credits: Producer and narrator, James A. FitzPatrick; music score, Joseph Nussbaum; photographer, Hone Glendinning. Technicolor

Registration MP2244 Renewed

Term began
1952-04-09
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE43671 filed 1980-01-10 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6941147)
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 RE43671 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-10
Original cited
MP2244 / 1952-04-09
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6941147: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE43671, registered 1980-01-10, for original registration MP2244 published 1952-04-09.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 16830–16841.

Summary: A tour of Ceylon showing the 
life, dress, customs, and industries of the 
natives. Includes scenes of Buddhist 
temples, the Peradinya Gardens, Mount 
Lavinia, Colombo, and Kandy. 

Credits: Producer and narrator, James A. 
FitzPatrick; music score, Joseph Nussbaum; 
photographer, Hone Glendinning. Techni- 
color. 

© Loew's Incorporated; 9Apr52; MP2244. 

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