Public Reel

THE POSTMAN

ooperation with the U. S. Post Office Dept. Summary: A comedy about the irritating situations which a postman encounters on his route. Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director, David Barclay; story and screenplay, Joe Ansen, David Barclay; film editor, Joseph Dietrick. Cast: Dave O'Brien

Registration LP2645 Renewed

Term began
1953-05-28
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE77515 filed 1981-01-05 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6974991)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2049 (95 years from the 1953 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 RE77515 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-05
Original cited
LP2645 / 1953-05-28
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6974991: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE77515, registered 1981-01-05, for original registration LP2645 published 1953-05-28.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 16593–16606.

duced in cooperation with the U. S. Post 
Office Dept. 

Summary: A comedy about the irritating 
situations which a postman encounters on his 
route. 

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete 
Smith; director, David Barclay; story and 
screenplay, Joe Ansen, David Barclay; film 
editor, Joseph Dietrick. Cast: Dave 
O'Brien. 

© Loew's Incorporated; 28May53; LP2645. 

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