THE OIL MAN'S BAZOOKA
n industrial film showing the development and commercial use of lined shaped charges for perforating oil well casing. Describes research on shaped charges at Stanford Research Institute; depicts the use of the bazooka as an anti-tank weapon during World War II. Includes slowmotion animated sequences
Registration MU5561 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1953-06-18
- Claimant
- Byron Jackson Co
- Class
- MU — unpublished motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- 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 14811–14820.
Summary: An industrial film showing the development and commercial use of lined shaped charges for perforating oil well casing. Describes research on shaped charges at Stanford Research Institute; de- picts the use of the bazooka as an anti-tank weapon during World War II. Includes slow- motion animated sequences. © Byron Jackson Co.; 18Jun53; MU5561.
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