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THE TELEPHONE GIRL. (R) TEMBO

the Belgian Congo led by Howard Hill, the famed archer, for the purpose of finding a legendary tribe of savages in the Pygmy Forest. Credits: Producer and director, Howard Hill; descriptive comments, Westbrook Van Voorhis; music, Claude Sweeten; cameraman, Arthur Phelps; film editor, Thomas P. Pratt

Registration LP1422 Renewed

Term began
1951-09-27
Claimant
Howard Hill Productions
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE41711 filed 1979-12-26 by Howard Hill Productions (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6939192)
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 RE41711 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.25)

Renewal claimant
Howard Hill Productions (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-12-26
Original cited
LP1422 / 1951-09-27
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6939192: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE41711, registered 1979-12-26, for original registration LP1422 published 1951-09-27.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 18602–18614.

expedition in East Africa and the Belgian 
Congo led by Howard Hill, the famed archer, 
for the purpose of finding a legendary 
tribe of savages in the Pygmy Forest. 

Credits: Producer and director, Howard 
Hill; descriptive comments, Westbrook Van 
Voorhis; music, Claude Sweeten; camera- 
man, Arthur Phelps; film editor, Thomas P. 
Pratt. 

© Howard Hill Productions; 27Sep51; 
LP1422. 

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