Public Reel

TOO MUCH SPEED

Warner Bros. short subject. Summary: Presents bicycle, motorcycle, and auto racing. Includes scenes of an auto race at the Indianapolis track and a mass erack-up of stock-car racers at Daytona Beach. Credits: Produced and written by Robert Youngson; narrator, Dwight Weist; film editor, Albert Helmes

Registration MP3173 Renewed

Term began
1953-01-02
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE52658 filed 1980-02-25 by Pathe News, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6950134)
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 RE52658 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Pathe News, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-02-25
Original cited
MP3173 / 1953-01-02
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6950134: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE52658, registered 1980-02-25, for original registration MP3173 published 1953-01-02.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 21374–21387.

ties) A Warner Bros. short subject. 

Summary: Presents bicycle, motorcycle, 
and auto racing. Includes scenes of an auto 
race at the Indianapolis track and a mass 
erack-up of stock-car racers at Daytona 
Beach. 

Credits: Produced and written by Robert 
Youngson; narrator, Dwight Weist; film 
editor, Albert Helmes. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 2Jan53 (in notice: 
1952); MP3173. 

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