Public Reel

THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS

New York leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Credits: Producers, Hal Chester, Jack Dietz; director, Eugene Lourie; screenplay, Lou Morheim, Fred Freiberger; music, David Buttolph; film editor, Bernard W. Burton. Cast: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods

Registration LP2638 Renewed

Term began
1953-06-16
Claimant
Warner Bros. Pictures, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE82029 filed 1981-01-27 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6979505)
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 RE82029 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-27
Original cited
LP2638 / 1953-06-16
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6979505: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE82029, registered 1981-01-27, for original registration LP2638 published 1953-06-16.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 1998–2014.

which terrorizes the city of New York 
leaving a path of destruction in its wake. 

Credits: Producers, Hal Chester, Jack 
Dietz; director, Eugene Lourie; screenplay, 
Lou Morheim, Fred Freiberger; music, 
David Buttolph; film editor, Bernard W. 
Burton. Cast: Paul Christian, Paula Ray- 
mond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, 
Donald Woods. 


Jan.—June 


© Warner Bros. Pictures, inc.; 16Jun53; 
LP2638, 

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