Public Reel

SPLIT SECOND

Credits: Producer, Edmund Grainger; director, Dick Powell; story, Chester Erskine, Irving Wallace; screenplay, William Bowers, Irving Wallace; music, Roy Webb; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Robert Ford. Cast: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt

Registration LP2663 Renewed

Term began
1953-04-28
Claimant
RKO Radio Pictures, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE104285 filed 1981-10-28 by RKO General, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7001759)
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 RE104285 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
RKO General, Inc.
Renewal date
1981-10-28
Original cited
LP2663 / 1953-04-28
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7001759: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE104285, registered 1981-10-28, for original registration LP2663 published 1953-04-28.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 19400–19414.

Credits: Producer, Edmund Grainger; 
director, Dick Powell; story, Chester 
Erskine, Irving Wallace; screenplay, Wil- 
liam Bowers, Irving Wallace; music, Roy 


Webb; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; 


film editor, Robert Ford. Cast: Stephen 
McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith 
Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt. 

© RKO Radio Pictures, inc.; 28Apr53; 
LP2663. 

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