BLACK BEAR TWINS

BIRD CONTROL. SEE John Kieran's kaleidoscope, no, ll. BIRD ISLAND. SEE John Kieran's kaleidoscope, no, 12. BIRTH OF A HERO. SEE Your all-star theatre, no. 4. THE BIRTHDAY LETTER. SEE Adventures of Superman. BLACK BEAR TWINS. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. 12 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Second ed

Registration LP2888 No renewal found

Term began

1953-04-20

Claimant

Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc

Class

LP — published 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 37049–37070.

BIRD CONTROL. SEE John Kieran's kaleido- 
scope, no, ll. 


BIRD ISLAND. SEE John Kieran's kaleido- 
scope, no, 12. 


BIRTH OF A HERO. SEE Your all-star 
theatre, no. 4. 


THE BIRTHDAY LETTER. SEE Adventures 
of Superman. 


BLACK BEAR TWINS. Encyclopaedia Britan- 
nica Films. 12 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. 
Second ed, 

© Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc.; 
20Apr53 (in notice: 1952); LP2888. 

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