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OVERTURE TO THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR

OVERTURE TO THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released by Loew's. 9 min., sd., color, 35 mm. A widescreen production: CinemaScope. Technicolor

Registration MP4965 Renewed

Term began
1953-12-22
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE77470 filed 1981-01-05 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6974946)
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 RE77470 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-05
Original cited
MP4965 / 1953-12-22
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6974946: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE77470, registered 1981-01-05, for original registration MP4965 published 1953-12-22.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 33677–33683.

OVERTURE TO THE MERRY WIVES OF 
WINDSOR. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Re- 
leased by Loew's. 9 min., sd., color, 

35 mm. A widescreen production: 
CinemaScope. Technicolor. 
© Loew's Incorporated; 22Dec53; MP4965, 

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