Public Reel

KILLER APE

KILLER APE, Columbia Pictures Corp. 7 reels, sd., sepia, 35mm. Based on the comic strip Jungle Jim, by Alex Raymond

Registration LP3053 Renewed

Term began
1953-12-01
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE79869 filed 1981-01-15 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6977345)
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 RE79869 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-15
Original cited
LP3053 / 1953-12-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6977345: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE79869, registered 1981-01-15, for original registration LP3053 published 1953-12-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 40567–40571.

KILLER APE, Columbia Pictures Corp. 
7 reels, sd., sepia, 35mm. Based on the 
comic strip Jungle Jim, by Alex Raymond. 
© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 1Dec53; 
LP3053. 

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