SURPRISE
SURPRISE, Chevrolet Division. Made by Jam Handy Organization. 1 min., sd., Eastman color, 55 mm
Registration MU6569 Renewed
- Term began
- 1959-01-12
- Claimant
- Chevrolet Division of General Motors Corp
- Class
- MU — unpublished motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- renewal RE279826 filed 1986-01-03 by CBS, Inc. (title+window; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7176472)
- Enters the public domain
- 1 January 2055 (95 years from the 1959 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 RE279826 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- CBS, Inc.
- Renewal date
- 1986-01-03
- Original cited
- LP11259 / 1958-03-03
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7176472: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE279826, registered 1986-01-03, for original registration LP11259 published 1958-03-03.
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 12060–12064.
SURPRISE, Chevrolet Division. Made by Jam Handy Organization. 1 min., sd., Eastman color, 55 mm, © Chevrolet Division of General Motors Corp.; 12Jan59; MU6569.
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