Public Reel

78, FILM ANTICS

FIFTY DOLLAR BILL. SEE Big town, no, 78, FILM ANTICS. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released by Loew's. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. ( Pete Smith specialty)

Registration LP3886 Renewed

Term began
1953-09-29
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE77496 filed 1981-01-05 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6974972)
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 RE77496 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.80)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-05
Original cited
LP3886 / 1953-09-29
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6974972: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE77496, registered 1981-01-05, for original registration LP3886 published 1953-09-29.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 29719–29726.

FIFTY DOLLAR BILL. SEE Big town, 
no, 78, 


FILM ANTICS. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Re- 
leased by Loew's. 8 min., sd., b&w, 
35 mm. ( Pete Smith specialty) 
© Loew's Incorporated; 29Sep53; LP3886, 

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