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KING OEDIPUS

KING OEDIPUS (Oedipus Rex) Oedipus Rex Productions, Toronto. Released in the U. S. by Motion Picture Distributors. 88 min., sd., color, 35 mm. Eastman color. A Stratford Shakespearean Festival Foundation of Canada production. Based on the play by Sophocles, in a version by William Butler Yeats

Registration LP83 Renewed

Term began
1957-01-02
Claimant
Oedipus Rex Productions, Ltd
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE238402 filed 1985-01-28 by Corinth Films, Inc. (date+title; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7135051)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2053 (95 years from the 1957 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 RE238402 (link: date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Corinth Films, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1985-01-28
Original cited
LP8348 / 1957-01-02
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7135051: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE238402, registered 1985-01-28, for original registration LP8348 published 1957-01-02.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1957, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3111213li (OCR text), lines 9125–9135.

KING OEDIPUS (Oedipus Rex) 
Oedipus Rex Productions, Toronto. 
Released in the U. S. by Motion 
Picture Distributors. 88 min., 
sd., color, 35 mm. Eastman color. 
A Stratford Shakespearean Festival 
Foundation of Canada production. 
Based on the play by Sophocles, in 
a version by William Butler Yeats. 
© Oedipus Rex Productions, Ltd.; 
2Jan57; LP83.8. 

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