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HISTORICAL ODDITIES

HISTORICAL ODDITIES. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. Released by Loew's. 9 min., sd., b&kw, 35 mm. (Pete Smith specialty)

Registration MP6171 Renewed

Term began
1955-05-16
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE116773 filed 1982-01-06 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7014248)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2051 (95 years from the 1955 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 RE116773 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Company (PWH)
Renewal date
1982-01-06
Original cited
MP6171 / 1955-05-16
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7014248: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE116773, registered 1982-01-06, for original registration MP6171 published 1955-05-16.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1955, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig391213lib (OCR text), lines 34791–34797.

HISTORICAL ODDITIES. Metro-Goldwyn- 
Mayer. Released by Loew's. 9 min., 
sd., b&kw, 35 mm. (Pete Smith 
specialty) 

© Loew's Incorporated; 16May55 
(in notice: 1954); MP6171. 

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