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b&w, 35mm. (Screenliner) Summary: Emphasizes the humor of two early screen melodramas. In The innocent girl, or Virtue triumphs, Madame Lazonga accosts an innocent country girl; and in The drunkard's reformation, a buttermilk addict is reformed. Credits: Narrator, Harry Von Zell; music, Herman Fuchs

Registration MP3401 Renewed

Term began
1952-11-29
Claimant
RKO Pathe, inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE65538 filed 1980-08-29 by Marian B., Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6963014)
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 RE65538 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Marian B., Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-08-29
Original cited
MP3401 / 1952-11-29
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6963014: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE65538, registered 1980-08-29, for original registration MP3401 published 1952-11-29.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 23787–23799.

sd., b&w, 35mm. (Screenliner) 

Summary: Emphasizes the humor of two 
early screen melodramas. In The innocent 
girl, or Virtue triumphs, Madame Lazonga 
accosts an innocent country girl; and in The 
drunkard's reformation, a buttermilk addict 
is reformed. 

Credits: Narrator, Harry Von Zell; music, 
Herman Fuchs. 

© RKO Pathe, inc.; 29Nov52; MP3401. 

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