Public Reel

THE LIBRARY: A FAMILY AFFAIR

2. 21 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Summary: The story of how an average family benefits from the many services of a large public library. Credits: Producer, director, and writer, Thomas Gilbert Brown; narrator, Alice Bellamy; educational advisor, Joseph C. Noethen; photographer and editor, Charles H. Coles

Registration MP2804 No renewal found

Term began
1952-09-16
Claimant
Brooklyn Public Library
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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 43132–43146.

Board of Education, 1952. 21 min., sd., 
b&w, 16mm. 

Summary: The story of how an average 
family benefits from the many services of 
a large public library. 

Credits: Producer, director, and writer, 
Thomas Gilbert Brown; narrator, Alice 
Bellamy; educational advisor, Joseph C. 
Noethen; photographer and editor, Charles 
H. Coles. 

© Brooklyn Public Library; 16Sep52; 
MP2804, 

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