Public Reel

STATE OF THE NATION

NATION. March of Time, 1952. 29 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Summary: A survey of life in the United States in October 1952. Includes scenes of the opening of school, a county fair, and the New York theater season. Discusses the rise in prices, war production, the Korean War, and the presidential campaign

Registration MP3215 Renewed

Term began
1952-10-01
Claimant
Time, inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE78498 filed 1980-12-22 by Time, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6975974)
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 RE78498 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Time, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-12-22
Original cited
MP3215 / 1952-10-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6975974: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE78498, registered 1980-12-22, for original registration MP3215 published 1952-10-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 19703–19713.

STATE OF THE NATION. March of Time, 
1952. 29 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. 

Summary: A survey of life in the United 
States in October 1952. Includes scenes of 
the opening of school, a county fair, and the 
New York theater season. Discusses the 
rise in prices, war production, the Korean 
War, and the presidential campaign. 

© Time, inc.; 10ct52; MP3215. 

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