Public Reel

BREATH OF DISASTER

the crash of an army bomber into the 78th and 79th floors of the Empire State Building in New York in 1945, and the disastrous floods in Kansas and Missouri in 1951. Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; written by Dan Doherty; narrator, Joe King; music director, Jack Shaindlin; film editor, Louis Ashley

Registration MP3632 No renewal found

Term began
1953-03-19
Claimant
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a 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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 2700–2712.

Vesuvius in 1944, the crash of an army 
bomber into the 78th and 79th floors of the 
Empire State Building in New York in 1945, 
and the disastrous floods in Kansas and 
Missouri in 1951. 

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; written 
by Dan Doherty; narrator, Joe King; music 
director, Jack Shaindlin; film editor, Louis 
Ashley. 

© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 
19Mar53; MP3632. 

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