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GENTS IN A JAM

TS IN A JAM. Columbia Pictures Corp., 1952. 17 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Summary: A slapstick comedy. The Three Stooges' dream of wealth vanishes when Shemp's rich uncle announces his plans to get married. Credits: Producer, Hugh McCollum; directed and written by Edward Bernds; film editor, Edwin Bryant

Registration LP1953 Renewed

Term began
1952-09-04
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE49549 filed 1980-01-28 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6947025)
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 RE49549 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-28
Original cited
LP1953 / 1952-09-04
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6947025: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE49549, registered 1980-01-28, for original registration LP1953 published 1952-09-04.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 40118–40131.

GENTS IN A JAM. Columbia Pictures Corp., 
1952. 17 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. 

Summary: A slapstick comedy. The Three 
Stooges' dream of wealth vanishes when 
Shemp's rich uncle announces his plans to 
get married. 

Credits: Producer, Hugh McCollum; 
directed and written by Edward Bernds; 
film editor, Edwin Bryant. 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 4Sep52; 
LP1953. 

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