Public Reel

A TALKING VALENTINE

A TALKING VALENTINE, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 5 min., sd., color, 16mm, Kodachrome, With film guide

Registration MP4420 No renewal found

Term began
1953-12-09
Claimant
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc
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 MP4420.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 11603–11608.

A TALKING VALENTINE, Encyclopaedia 
Britannica Films, 5 min., sd., color, 16mm, 
Kodachrome, With film guide. 

© Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc,; 
9Dec53; MP4420, 

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