CENTENNIAL SPORTS
. Summary: Scenes from the Canterbury Centennial games in New Zealand, including swimming, racing, hurdle-jumping, and a championship trotting horse race. Credits: Producer, Cedric Francis; director, Arthur Collins; written by Owen Crump; music by Howard Jackson; film editor, Rex Steele. Technicolor
Registration MP2739 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1952-09-08
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1979-1981 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1981 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1979 or 1980 volume; volumes searched: 1979, 1980, 1981.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 37041–37051.
Summary: Scenes from the Canterbury Centennial games in New Zealand, including swimming, racing, hurdle-jumping, and a championship trotting horse race. Credits: Producer, Cedric Francis; director, Arthur Collins; written by Owen Crump; music by Howard Jackson; film editor, Rex Steele. Technicolor. © The Vitaphone Corp.; 8Sep52; MP2739.
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