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STRANGER IN THE HOUSE

STRANGER IN THE HOUSE. Methodist Church. Made by Jam Handy Organization. 3,910 ft., b&w, 35 mm

Registration MU6181 Renewed

Term began
1956-08-27
Claimant
Jam Handy Organization, Inc
Class
MU — unpublished motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding
renewal RE160039 filed 1983-02-14 by Viacom International, Inc. (title+window; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7057515)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2052 (95 years from the 1956 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 RE160039 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Viacom International, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1983-02-14
Original cited
LP4688 / 1955-03-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7057515: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE160039, registered 1983-02-14, for original registration LP4688 published 1955-03-01.

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1956, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3101213li (OCR text), lines 40697–40703.

STRANGER IN THE HOUSE. Methodist 
Church. Made by Jam Handy 
Organization. 3,910 ft., b&w, 

35 mm. 
© Jam Handy Organization, Inc.; 
27Aug56; MU6181. 

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