THE FROG MAN
sd., color, 16mm. (Fearless Fosdick adventures, no. A-2) Based on a comic strip character created by Al Capp [pseud. of Alfred Gerald Caplin] Summary: A puppet show which relates the adventures of detective Fearless Fosdick and a pearl thief. Kodachrome. Appl. title: Fearless Fosdick in The frog man
Registration LP2272 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1952-08-03
- Claimant
- Louis G. Cowan, inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1979-1981 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1981 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1979 or 1980 volume; volumes searched: 1979, 1980, 1981.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 6841–6854.
24 min., sd., color, 16mm. (Fearless Fos- dick adventures, no. A-2) Based on a comic strip character created by Al Capp [pseud. of Alfred Gerald Caplin] Summary: A puppet show which relates the adventures of detective Fearless Fos- dick and a pearl thief. Kodachrome. Appl. title: Fearless Fosdick in The frog man. © Louis G. Cowan, inc.; 3Aug52 (in notice: 1951); LP2272.
Copies on the Internet Archive
Searched on 5 September 2026; no item with this title and year was found.