Public Reel

SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY

ry War hymns and a ballad singer narrates historical information while young Michael Smith is taken on a guided tour of historic Williamsburg, Va. Credits: Producer, Burton Benjamin; director and photographer, Harry W. Smith; written by Earle Luby; music supervisor, Herman Fuchs; editor, Sidney Katz

Registration MP2984 Renewed

Term began
1952-06-18
Claimant
RKO-Pathe, Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE64723 filed 1980-08-08 by Marian B., Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6962199)
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 RE64723 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Marian B., Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-08-08
Original cited
MP2984 / 1952-06-18
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6962199: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE64723, registered 1980-08-08, for original registration MP2984 published 1952-06-18.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 51052–51062.

War hymns and a ballad singer narrates 
historical information while young Michael 
Smith is taken on a guided tour of historic 
Williamsburg, Va. 

Credits: Producer, Burton Benjamin; 
director and photographer, Harry W. Smith; 
written by Earle Luby; music supervisor, 
Herman Fuchs; editor, Sidney Katz. 

© RKO-Pathe, Inc.; 18Jun52; MP2984, 

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