DEADLY DRUMS
Universal-International picture. Summary: Dramatizes the search for two railroad freight cars loaded with an improperly compounded chemical mixture which was found to be highly explosive. Credits: Producer, Thomas Mead; directed and written by Arthur Cohen; narrator, Fred Maness; editor, Ed. Bartsch
Registration MP3551 Renewed
- Term began
- 1953-05-08
- Claimant
- Universal Pictures Co., inc
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE55200 filed 1980-03-26 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6952676)
- 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 RE55200 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1980-03-26
- Original cited
- MP3551 / 1953-05-08
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6952676: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE55200, registered 1980-03-26, for original registration MP3551 published 1953-05-08.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 4480–4492.
view) A Universal-International picture. Summary: Dramatizes the search for two railroad freight cars loaded with an improp- erly compounded chemical mixture which was found to be highly explosive. Credits: Producer, Thomas Mead; directed and written by Arthur Cohen; narrator, Fred Maness; editor, Ed. Bartsch. © Universal Pictures Co., inc.; 8May53 (in notice: 1952); MP3551.
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