THE RIVER

THE RIVER. Farm Security Administration of the United States Department of Agriculture. 1937. 3 reels, sd.

Written and directed by Pare Lorentz; narrator, Thomas Chalmers; editors, Leo Zochling, Lloyd Nosier; music, Virgil Thomson; photography, Stacy Woodard, Floyd Crosby, Willard Van Dyke.

Registration LP7702 No renewal found

Term began: 1937-10-29
Claimant: Pare Lorentz
Class: LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1964-1966 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
In the public domain since: 1 January 1966 (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 1964 or 1965 volume; volumes searched: 1964, 1965, 1966.

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 LP7702.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 203706–203714.

  THE RIVER. Farm Security Administration of the United States
    Department of Agriculture. 1937. 3 reels, sd.

    Credits: Written and directed by Pare Lorentz; narrator, Thomas
    Chalmers; editors, Leo Zochling, Lloyd Nosier; music, Virgil
    Thomson; photography, Stacy Woodard, Floyd Crosby, Willard Van Dyke.

    © Pare Lorentz; 29Oct37; LP7702.

Copies on the Internet Archive

Item	Year	Downloads	Collection
The River	1938	4,232	FedFlix, usgovfilms
The River	1937	1,535	living_new_deal_project, ephemera

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