THE 50TH STATE

Columbia HAWAII - THE 50TH STATE. Britannica Films. color, 16 mm

Registration MP9770 Renewed

Term began: 1959-06-11
Claimant: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc
Class: MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding: renewal RE357460 filed 1987-12-10 by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7253903)
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 claimant: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date: 1987-12-10
Original cited: MP9770 / 1959-06-11
Source: U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7253903: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE357460, registered 1987-12-10, for original registration MP9770 published 1959-06-11.

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1959, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3131213li (OCR text), lines 26794–26802.

Columbia 


HAWAII - THE 50TH STATE. 
Britannica Films. 


color, 16 mm. © Encyclopaedia Bri- 
tannica Films, Inc.; 11Jun59; MP9770.

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