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ANCIENT FISTORY

IENT FISTORY. Paramount Pictures Corp., 1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Popeye the sailor cartoon) Summary: Aided by his fairy godfather, Popeye attends Olive Oyl's ball. Credits: Director, Seymour Kneitel; story, Irving Spector; music, Winston Sharples; animation, Al Eugster, William B. Pattengill

Registration LP2236 No renewal found

Term began
1953-01-30
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1980-1982 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1982 (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 1980 or 1981 volume; volumes searched: 1980, 1981, 1982.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 1292–1305.

ANCIENT FISTORY. Paramount Pictures 
Corp., 1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. 
(Popeye the sailor cartoon) 

Summary: Aided by his fairy godfather, 
Popeye attends Olive Oyl's ball. 

Credits: Director, Seymour Kneitel; story, 
Irving Spector; music, Winston Sharples; 
animation, Al Eugster, William B. Patten- 
gill. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 30Jan53 (in 
notice: 1952); LP2236. 

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