Public Reel

CONQUERING THE SURF

s Sport Show) Summary: Shows surf-boat riders performing acrobatics off Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Includes scenes of a surfboat race along a dangerous course in the Tasmanian Sea. Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; narrator, Mel Allen; musical director, Jack Shaindlin; film editor, John McManus

Registration MP2533 Renewed

Term began
1952-03-07
Claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE57217 filed 1980-03-14 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6954693)
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 RE57217 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-03-14
Original cited
MP2533 / 1952-03-07
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6954693: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE57217, registered 1980-03-14, for original registration MP2533 published 1952-03-07.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 37581–37594.

b&w, 35mm. (Mel Allen's Sport Show) 

Summary: Shows surf-boat riders per- 
forming acrobatics off Bondi Beach in Syd- 
ney, Australia. Includes scenes of a surf- 
boat race along a dangerous course in the 
Tasmanian Sea. 

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; narra- 
tor, Mel Allen; musical director, Jack 
Shaindlin; film editor, John McManus. 

© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 
7Mar52; MP2533. 

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