Public Reel

OPEN UP THAT GOLDEN GATE

of the gold rush to the present. Shows how history is repeating itself as large numbers of individuals and industries are again moving into the area. Credits: Director, David Griffin; written by Owen Crump; narrator, Lou Marcelle; music author, William Lava; film editor, DeLeon Anthony. Technicolor

Registration MP2741 Renewed

Term began
1952-09-08
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE51479 filed 1980-02-20 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6948955)
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 RE51479 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-02-20
Original cited
MP2741 / 1952-09-08
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6948955: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE51479, registered 1980-02-20, for original registration MP2741 published 1952-09-08.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 46743–46753.

the time of the gold rush to the present. 
Shows how history is repeating itself as 
large numbers of individuals and industries 
are again moving into the area. 

Credits: Director, David Griffin; written 
by Owen Crump; narrator, Lou Marcelle; 
music author, William Lava; film editor, 
DeLeon Anthony. Technicolor. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 8Seps2; MP2741. 

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