Public Reel

FOREST RANGER

FOREST RANGER, Viking Pictures Corp, Released by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 12 min,, sd., color, 16mm, Kodachrome

Registration MP4020 No renewal found

Term began
1953-06-17
Claimant
Viking Pictures Corp
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.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number MP4020.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 38948–38953.

FOREST RANGER, Viking Pictures Corp, 
Released by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 
12 min,, sd., color, 16mm, Kodachrome, 

© Viking Pictures Corp.; 17Jun53 (in notice: 
1952); MP4020. 

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