Public Reel

A CITY IS BORN: LEVITTOWN, PA

have 16,000 homes housing 70,000 people. Presents Bill and Alfred Levitt who discuss their philosophy of building and the problems encountered in planning the city. Includes a stop-motion photography sequence which shows the complete construction of a Levitt house from empty lot to finished dwelling

Registration MP3485 Renewed

Term began
1953-02-11
Claimant
Time, inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE113014 filed 1981-12-31 by Time, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7010489)
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 RE113014 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.65)

Renewal claimant
Time, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-12-31
Original cited
MP3485 / 1953-02-11
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7010489: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE113014, registered 1981-12-31, for original registration MP3485 published 1953-02-11.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 3549–3556.

have 16,000 homes housing 70,000 people. 
Presents Bill and Alfred Levitt who discuss 
their philosophy of building and the problems 
encountered in planning the city. Includes a 
stop-motion photography sequence which 
shows the complete construction of a Levitt 
house from empty lot to finished dwelling. 
© Time, inc.; 11Feb53; MP3485. 

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