500,000 TO 1
FIVE GREAT CITIES. SEE The northeastern United States. 500,000 TO 1, Sinclair Refining Co. Made by Atlas Film Corp. 25 min., sd., color, 16 mm, Kodachrome
Registration MP5440 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1953-12-15
- Claimant
- Sinclair Refining Co
- 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 MP5440.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 29831–29840.
FIVE GREAT CITIES. SEE The northeastern United States. 500,000 TO 1, Sinclair Refining Co. Made by Atlas Film Corp. 25 min., sd., color, 16 mm, Kodachrome. © Sinclair Refining Co.; 15Dec53 (in notice: 1954); MP5440,
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