WESTERN PACIFIC FAST FREIGHT
from the motion picture "Destination U.S. A.," produced by Photo & Sound Productions for the Western Pacific Railroad Co. Summary: Explains how the movements of the Western Pacific trains are directed from a centralized traffic control panel, Credits: Narrator, Carter Reynolds; editor, Gardner Soule
Registration MP2542 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1952-06-01
- Claimant
- on adaptation and new matter
- 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.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 53966–53979.
(Blackhawk Railroad Series) Adapted from the motion picture "Destination U.S. A.," produced by Photo & Sound Productions for the Western Pacific Railroad Co. Summary: Explains how the movements of the Western Pacific trains are directed from a centralized traffic control panel, Credits: Narrator, Carter Reynolds; editor, Gardner Soule. © on adaptation and new matter; Black- hawk Films, Inc.; 1Jun52; MP2542,
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