Public Reel

THE BIG HEAT

THE BIG HEAT. Columbia Pictures Corp, 9 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm, Based on the book of the same title by William P. McGivern

Registration LP3057 Renewed

Term began
1953-10-01
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE79871 filed 1981-01-15 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6977347)
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 RE79871 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-15
Original cited
LP3057 / 1953-10-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6977347: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE79871, registered 1981-01-15, for original registration LP3057 published 1953-10-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 36864–36868.

THE BIG HEAT. Columbia Pictures Corp, 
9 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm, Based on the book 
of the same title by William P. McGivern, 
© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 1Oct53; 
LP3057. 

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