Public Reel

POPEYE'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY

POPEYE'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY. Paramount Pictures Corp, 1 reel, sd., color, 35 mm, (Popeye the sailor cartoon)

Registration LP4033 No renewal found

Term began
1954-04-02
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1981-1983 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1983 (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 1981 or 1982 volume; volumes searched: 1981, 1982, 1983.

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 LP4033.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 34206–34211.

POPEYE'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY. Paramount 
Pictures Corp, 1 reel, sd., color, 35 mm, 
(Popeye the sailor cartoon) 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 2Apr54; 
LP4033. 

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