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THE LITTLEST EXPERT ON YESTERDAY'S CHAMPIONS

Hankinson comments on sports stars of the past. Includes scenes from newsreels of the Olympics in 1912, of pitchers Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown, of the fights of Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson, and of Barney Oldfield at the Indianapolis Speedway. Credits: Producer and director, Justin Herman

Registration MP2952 Renewed

Term began
1952-10-03
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE76107 filed 1980-12-22 by Harvey Films, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6973583)
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 RE76107 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Harvey Films, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-12-22
Original cited
MP2952 / 1952-10-03
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6973583: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE76107, registered 1980-12-22, for original registration MP2952 published 1952-10-03.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 43508–43520.

Summary: Charlie Hankinson comments on 
sports stars of the past. Includes scenes 
from newsreels of the Olympics in 1912, of 
pitchers Christy Mathewson and Mordecai 
Brown, of the fights of Jim Jeffries and Jack 
Johnson, and of Barney Oldfield at the 
Indianapolis Speedway. 

Credits: Producer and director, Justin 
Herman. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 30ct52; 
MP2952. 

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