Public Reel

AQUATIC KIDS

1953. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Pete Smith specialty) Summary: Shows children learning and teaching water-skiing at Florida's Cypress Gardens. Includes scenes of champion skiers, and describes the techniques of skiing on water. Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; film editor, Joseph Dietrick

Registration MP3228 Renewed

Term began
1953-02-19
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE43663 filed 1980-01-10 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6941139)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2049 (95 years from the 1953 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 RE43663 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-10
Original cited
MP3228 / 1953-02-19
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6941139: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE43663, registered 1980-01-10, for original registration MP3228 published 1953-02-19.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 1485–1498.

leased by Loew's, 1953. 8 min., sd., b&w, 
35mm. (Pete Smith specialty) 

Summary: Shows children learning and 
teaching water-skiing at Florida's Cypress 
Gardens. Includes scenes of champion 
skiers, and describes the techniques of skiing 
on water. 

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete 
Smith; film editor, Joseph Dietrick. 

© Loew's Incorporated; 19Feb53 (in notice: 
1952); MP3228. 

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