Public Reel

THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR

music teacher is the villain, Credits: Producer, Stanley Kramer; director, Roy Rowland; story, Dr. Seuss; screenplay, Dr. Seuss, Alan Scott; music, Frederick Hollander; music director, Morris Stoloff; film editor, Al Clark. Cast: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig, John Heasley

Registration LP2405 Renewed

Term began
1952-12-01
Claimant
Stanley Kramer Co., inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE49553 filed 1980-01-28 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6947029)
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 RE49553 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.71)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-28
Original cited
LP2405 / 1952-12-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6947029: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE49553, registered 1980-01-28, for original registration LP2405 published 1952-12-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 6386–6397.

in which his music teacher is the villain, 

Credits: Producer, Stanley Kramer; 
director, Roy Rowland; story, Dr. Seuss; 
screenplay, Dr. Seuss, Alan Scott; music, 
Frederick Hollander; music director, Morris 
Stoloff; film editor, Al Clark. Cast: Peter 
Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, 
Tommy Rettig, John Heasley. 

© Stanley Kramer Co., inc.; 1Dec52; 
LP2405. 

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