Public Reel

THE SWAN SONG

Time, 1952. 30 min., sd., b&ew, 16mm. (Ballets de France, no. 13-14) Released in two parts. Summary: A prima ballerina whose career is over reviews her life as a dancer. Credits: Producer and director, J. A. Benoit-Levy; music, Jeanine Rueff; music director, Richard Blareau. Cast: Genevieve Kergrist

Registration MP3104 Renewed

Term began
1952-09-09
Claimant
Time, inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE87578 filed 1980-12-22 by Time, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6985054)
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 RE87578 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Time, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-12-22
Original cited
MP3104 / 1952-09-09
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6985054: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE87578, registered 1980-12-22, for original registration MP3104 published 1952-09-09.

Renewal RE87579 (link: date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Time, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-12-22
Original cited
MP3105 / 1952-09-09
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6985055: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE87579, registered 1980-12-22, for original registration MP3105 published 1952-09-09.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 20284–20298.

THE SWAN SONG. March of Time, 1952. 


30 min., sd., b&ew, 16mm. (Ballets de 
France, no. 13-14) Released in two parts. 

Summary: A prima ballerina whose career 
is over reviews her life as a dancer. 

Credits: Producer and director, J. A. 
Benoit-Levy; music, Jeanine Rueff; music 
director, Richard Blareau. Cast: Genevieve 
Kergrist. 

© Time, inc.; 9Sep52; MP3104-3105. 

Copies on the Internet Archive

Not searched yet.

Search the Internet Archive yourself · JSON