Public Reel

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN KIDD

w who seize the buccaneer's treasure and his ship, Credits: Producer, Alex Gottlieb; director, Charles Lamont; written by Howard Dimsdale and John Grant; music, Raoul Kraushaar; film editor, Edward Mann. Super- Cinecolor. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Hillary Brooke, Bill Shirley

Registration LP2173 Renewed

Term began
1952-12-17
Claimant
Woodley Productions, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE73597 filed 1980-12-19 by RKO General, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6971073)
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 RE73597 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
RKO General, Inc.
Renewal date
1980-12-19
Original cited
LP2173 / 1952-12-17
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6971073: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE73597, registered 1980-12-19, for original registration LP2173 published 1952-12-17.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 34141–34153.

members of Captain Kidd's pirate crew who 
seize the buccaneer's treasure and his ship, 

Credits: Producer, Alex Gottlieb; director, 
Charles Lamont; written by Howard Dims- 
dale and John Grant; music, Raoul Krau- 
shaar; film editor, Edward Mann. Super- 
Cinecolor. Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, 
Charles Laughton, Hillary Brooke, Bill 
Shirley. 

© Woodley Productions, Inc.; 17Dec52; 
LP2173. 

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