Public Reel

KISMET

. 16 double fr., color, 35 mm. © March K. Fong; 20Feb56; JU8502. KISMET. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Released by Loew's. 113 min., sd., color, 35 mm. CinemaScope. Eastman color. Based on the musical play of the same title, with book by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis; founded on Kismet, by Edward Knoblock

Registration LP5856 Renewed

Term began
1955-11-28
Claimant
Loew's Incorporated
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE151744 filed 1983-01-05 by MGM/UA Entertainment Company (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7049220)
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 RE151744 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
MGM/UA Entertainment Company
Renewal date
1983-01-05
Original cited
LP5856 / 1955-11-28
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7049220: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE151744, registered 1983-01-05, for original registration LP5856 published 1955-11-28.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1956, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3101213li (OCR text), lines 7990–8004.

16 double fr., color, 35 mm. 
© March K. Fong; 20Feb56; JU8502. 


KISMET. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Re- 
leased by Loew's. 113 min., sd., 
color, 35 mm. CinemaScope. East- 
man color. Based on the musical 
play of the same title, with book 
by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis; 
founded on Kismet, by Edward Knob- 
lock. 

© Loew's Incorporated; 28Nov55; 
LP5856. 

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