THE CONGRESS
THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. SEE You are there. THE CONGRESS. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. 20 min., sd., b&w, 16 mm. With film guide
Registration MP5850 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1954-12-09
- Claimant
- Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a 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 MP5850.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1955, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig391213lib (OCR text), lines 2922–2932.
THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. SEE You are there. THE CONGRESS. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. 20 min., sd., b&w, 16 mm. With film guide. © Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.; 9Dec5h; MP5850.
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