JAPAN: 80,000,000 MOUTHS TO FEED
ing on a chain of islands whose area is less than that of California. Describes the cultivation of rice, which constitutes the main crop of Japan and is planted by hand, the growing and processing of tea, and the important fishing and salt industries. Credits: Producer and photographer, Dickson Reck
Registration MP3491 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1953-01-22
- Claimant
- Dickson Reck
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1980-1982 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1982 (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 1980 or 1981 volume; volumes searched: 1980, 1981, 1982.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 9631–9644.
80,000,000 people living on a chain of islands whose area is less than that of California. Describes the cultivation of rice, which con- stitutes the main crop of Japan and is planted by hand, the growing and processing of tea, and the important fishing and salt industries. Credits: Producer and photographer, Dickson Reck. © Dickson Reck; 22Jan53 (in notice: 1952); MP3491.
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