Public Reel

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)

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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. 

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