Public Reel

TELEVISION: HOW IT WORKS!

Summary: Scenes within a television station are used to explain the basic principles of television broadcasting and reception. Shows the operation of a cathode ray tube, an image orthicon tube, an electron gun, deflecting coils, and a syne-generator. Credits: Educational collaborator, Marvin Camras

Registration MP3305 Renewed

Term began
1952-12-16
Claimant
John Smart
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE74757 filed 1980-11-28 by Coronet Instructional Media (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6972233)
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 RE74757 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Coronet Instructional Media (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-11-28
Original cited
MP3305 / 1952-12-16
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6972233: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE74757, registered 1980-11-28, for original registration MP3305 published 1952-12-16.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 20755–20765.

Summary: Scenes within a television sta- 
tion are used to explain the basic principles 
of television broadcasting and reception. 
Shows the operation of a cathode ray tube, 
an image orthicon tube, an electron gun, de- 
flecting coils, and a syne-generator. 

Credits: Educational collaborator, Marvin 
Camras. 

© John Smart; 16Dec52; MP3305. 

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