Public Reel

HOW DEATH VALLEY GOT ITS NAME

over a shorter route to the California gold fields in 1849. Credits: Producer, Dorrel McGowan; director, Stuart McGowan; screenplay, Ruth C. Woodman; music supervisor, Irving Friedman; film editor, Anthony Wollner. Cast: Brad Johnson, Phyllis Coates, Kirkley Reilly, Louise Lorimer, Bobbie Birchfield

Registration LP2102 Renewed

Term began
1952-10-01
Claimant
Borax Consolidated, Ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE74515 filed 1980-12-01 by United States Borax & Chemical Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6971991)
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 RE74515 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
United States Borax & Chemical Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-12-01
Original cited
LP2102 / 1952-10-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6971991: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE74515, registered 1980-12-01, for original registration LP2102 published 1952-10-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 41380–41391.

cover a shorter route to the California gold 
fields in 1849. 

Credits: Producer, Dorrel McGowan; 
director, Stuart McGowan; screenplay, Ruth 
C. Woodman; music supervisor, Irving 
Friedman; film editor, Anthony Wollner. 
Cast: Brad Johnson, Phyllis Coates, Kirkley 
Reilly, Louise Lorimer, Bobbie Birchfield. 

© Borax Consolidated, Ltd.; 10ct52; 
LP2102. 

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