Public Reel

LOG JAM

achias River in Maine. Includes scenes of lumberjacks breaking log jams with dynamite and with their ancient hand tools—the pike, the pole, and the peavy. Credits: Producer, Burton Benjamin; director, William Deeke; written by Earle Luby; narrator, Alan Ben Oak; music, John Gart; editor, Sidney Katz

Registration MP3404 Renewed

Term began
1952-10-26
Claimant
RKO Pathe, inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE65541 filed 1980-08-29 by Marian B., Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6963017)
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 RE65541 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Marian B., Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-08-29
Original cited
MP3404 / 1952-10-26
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6963017: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE65541, registered 1980-08-29, for original registration MP3404 published 1952-10-26.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 10825–10836.

the flow of timber down the Machias River 
in Maine. Includes scenes of lumberjacks 
breaking log jams with dynamite and with 
their ancient hand tools—the pike, the pole, 
and the peavy. 

Credits: Producer, Burton Benjamin; 
director, William Deeke; written by Earle 
Luby; narrator, Alan Ben Oak; music, John 
Gart; editor, Sidney Katz. 

© RKO Pathe, inc.; 26Oct52; MP3404. 

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