A POEM OF LIFE
PLEASE MURDER ME, SEE Big town, no, 19. A POEM OF LIFE, John Strang, Norman Boothby. Made by Focal Point Films. 11 min,., sd., b&w, 16mm
Registration MP4195 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1953-09-15
- Claimant
- John Strang, Norman Boothby
- 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.
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Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 42805–42812.
PLEASE MURDER ME, SEE Big town, no, 19. A POEM OF LIFE, John Strang, Norman Boothby. Made by Focal Point Films. 11 min,., sd., b&w, 16mm, © John Strang, Norman Boothby; 15Sep53; MP4195.
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