Public Reel

WHISPERING SMITH

Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. 95 min., sd., Metrocolor, 35 mm. CinemaScope. Based on a story by Anthony Marshall

Registration LP23377 Renewed

Term began
1962-10-31
Claimant
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE494238 filed 1990-11-01 by Turner Entertainment Company (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7389400)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2058 (95 years from the 1962 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 RE494238 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.03)

Renewal claimant
Turner Entertainment Company (PWH)
Renewal date
1990-11-01
Original cited
LP23377 / 1962-10-31
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7389400: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE494238, registered 1990-11-01, for original registration LP23377 published 1962-10-31.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1962, Internet Archive catalogofcopyr3161213libr (OCR text), lines 36528–36534.

Metro-Goldwyn- 
Mayer. 95 min., sd., Metrocolor, 

35 mm. CinemaScope. Based on a 
story by Anthony Marshall. © Metro- 
Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.; 310ct62; 
LP23377. 

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