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THE COLONIAL PRINTER

methods of printing of the 18th century and emphasizes the role of the colonial printers in the fight for independence. Credits: Producer, Arthur L. Smith; director, Ross Patton; written by Howard Turner; narrator, William Rogers; music score, Herman Price; film editor, James G. Schaadt. Kodachrome

Registration MP3323 Renewed

Term began
1952-12-05
Claimant
Colonial Williamsburg, ine
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE75973 filed 1980-06-30 by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6973449)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 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 RE75973 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-06-30
Original cited
MP3323 / 1952-12-05
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6973449: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE75973, registered 1980-06-30, for original registration MP3323 published 1952-12-05.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 3761–3781.

Demonstrates the slow, laborious methods 


1953, 


MOTION PICTURES AND FILMSTRIPS 9 


of printing of the 18th century and empha- 
sizes the role of the colonial printers in the 
fight for independence. 

Credits: Producer, Arthur L. Smith; 
director, Ross Patton; written by Howard 
Turner; narrator, William Rogers; music 
score, Herman Price; film editor, James G. 
Schaadt. Kodachrome. 

© Colonial Williamsburg, ine.; 5Dec52; 
MP3323. 

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