Public Reel

YOUNG WIVES' TALE

ry: A comedy about two couples who are forced by the housing shortage to share a one-family house. Credits: Producer, Victor Skutezky; director, Henry Cass; screenplay, Anne Burnaby; music, Philip Green; editor, E. Jarvis. Cast: Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Derek Farr, Guy Middleton, Athene Seyler

Registration LP1870 Renewed

Term began
1952-08-15
Claimant
Stratford Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE55231 filed 1979-12-05 by EMI Films, Ltd. (title+window; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6952707)
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 RE55231 (link: title+window, title similarity 0.89)

Renewal claimant
EMI Films, Ltd.
Renewal date
1979-12-05
Original cited
PA52742 / 1951-11-12
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6952707: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE55231, registered 1979-12-05, for original registration PA52742 published 1951-11-12.

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 54676–54689.

Summary: A comedy about two couples 
who are forced by the housing shortage to 
share a one-family house. 

Credits: Producer, Victor Skutezky; 
director, Henry Cass; screenplay, Anne 
Burnaby; music, Philip Green; editor, E. 
Jarvis. Cast: Joan Greenwood, Nigel 
Patrick, Derek Farr, Guy Middleton, Athene 
Seyler. 

© Stratford Pictures Corp., 15Aug52; 

LP 1870. 

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