Public Reel

NEW SALEM STORY

NEW SALEM STORY. 'E. I. du Pont Nemours. Made by Screen Gems, 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16 mm. (The cavalcade of America)

Registration LP3970 No renewal found

Term began
1953-02-04
Claimant
Screen Gems, inc
Class
LP — published 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 LP3970.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 33199–33205.

NEW SALEM STORY. 'E. I. du Pont 
Nemours. Made by Screen Gems, 3 reels, 
sd., b&w, 16 mm. (The cavalcade of 
America) 

© Screen Gems, inc.; 4Feb53 (in notice: 
1951); LP3970. 

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