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BELOW THE SAHARA

BELOW THE SAHARA. RKO-Pathe. 65 min., sd., color, 35mm, Technicolor, Credits: Producer and director, Armand Denis; production supervisors, Jay Bonafield, Douglas Travers; written by Jerome Brondfield and Burton Benjamin

Registration MP3709 Renewed

Term began
1953-06-03
Claimant
RKO-Pathe, inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE104290 filed 1981-10-28 by RKO General, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7001764)
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 RE104290 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
RKO General, Inc.
Renewal date
1981-10-28
Original cited
MP3709 / 1953-06-03
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7001764: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE104290, registered 1981-10-28, for original registration MP3709 published 1953-06-03.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 36805–36813.

BELOW THE SAHARA. RKO-Pathe. 65 min., 
sd., color, 35mm, Technicolor, 

Credits: Producer and director, Armand 
Denis; production supervisors, Jay Bona- 
field, Douglas Travers; written by Jerome 
Brondfield and Burton Benjamin, 

© RKO-Pathe, inc.; 3Jun53; MP3709. 

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