Public Reel

CHINA DOLL

CHIMP SHOW. CHINA BOY. CHINA DOLL. Romina, Released by United Artists Corp. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35 mm. From the story Time is a memory, by Kitty Buhler, Based on a story by James Benson Nablo and Thomas F. Kelly

Registration LP12609 Renewed

Term began
1958-07-27
Claimant
Batjac Enterprises, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE282854 filed 1986-01-28 by Batjac Enterprises, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7179355)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2054 (95 years from the 1958 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 RE282854 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Batjac Enterprises, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1986-01-28
Original cited
LP12609 / 1958-07-27
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7179355: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE282854, registered 1986-01-28, for original registration LP12609 published 1958-07-27.

Renewal RE313908 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
the Californian Film Enterprises, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1986-12-17
Original cited
LP14173 / 1958-01-21
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7210357: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE313908, registered 1986-12-17, for original registration LP14173 published 1958-01-21.

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.

Renewal RE336734 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Rita Edelman, Marian Sisk Stewart & Danny Thomas; Stewart, Marian Sisk; Thomas, Danny (PWH)
Renewal date
1986-12-29
Original cited
LP14173 / 1958-01-21
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7233178: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE336734, registered 1986-12-29, for original registration LP14173 published 1958-01-21.

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, 1959, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3131213li (OCR text), lines 2716–2726.

CHIMP SHOW. 
CHINA BOY. 


CHINA DOLL. Romina, Released by 
United Artists Corp. 8 min., sd., 
b&w, 35 mm. From the story Time is 
a memory, by Kitty Buhler, Based on 
a story by James Benson Nablo and 
Thomas F. Kelly. © Batjac Enter- 
prises, Inc.; 27Ju158; LP12609. 

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