ATOM SMASHERS
ATOM SMASHERS, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Produced in collaboration with the Division of the Physical Sciences which includes the Institute of Nuclear Studies of the University of Chicago. 12 min., sd., b&w, 16mm
Registration MP4006 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1953-05-27
- Claimant
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1980-1982 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1982 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1980 or 1981 volume; volumes searched: 1980, 1981, 1982.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 36615–36629.
ATOM SMASHERS, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Produced in collaboration with the Division of the Physical Sciences which includes the Institute of Nuclear Studies of July—Dec. the University of Chicago. 12 min., sd., b&w, 16mm, © Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc.; 27May53 (in notice; 1952); MP4006,
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