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FORMOSA: BLUEPRINT FOR A FREE CHINA

NA. March of Time, 1953. 28 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Summary: A report on progress made by the Chinese Nationalist government in implementing a program of economic and military recovery on the island of Formosa. Presents Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York who comments on his recent trip to the island

Registration MP3486 Renewed

Term began
1953-01-28
Claimant
Time, inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE113015 filed 1981-12-31 by Time, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7010490)
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 RE113015 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Time, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-12-31
Original cited
MP3486 / 1953-01-28
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7010490: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE113015, registered 1981-12-31, for original registration MP3486 published 1953-01-28.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 6576–6587.

CHINA. March of Time, 1953. 28 min., 
sd., b&w, 16mm. 

Summary: A report on progress made 
by the Chinese Nationalist government in 
implementing a program of economic and 
military recovery on the island of Formosa. 
Presents Governor Thomas E. Dewey of 
New York who comments on his recent trip 
to the island. 

© Time, inc.; 28Jan53; MP3486. 

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