The Cause of Goiter

No renewal found Free in the US since 1 January 1967, on the registry's reading: registration MU8890 of 1938 by Dr. Horry M. Jones was not renewed in the volumes searched.

Finding revision 3d788404, first recorded 5 September 2026. A revision id changes when the finding, its reason or its linked renewals change.

Registration MU8890 No renewal found

Term began: 1938-11-12
Claimant: Dr. Horry M. Jones
Class: MU — unpublished motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Sept. 1928)
Finding: no renewal entry found for 1965-1967 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
Conditional date: 1 January 1967, if no renewal was filed. The automated search result requires verification against the linked volumes.

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An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1965 or 1966 volume; volumes searched: 1965, 1966, 1967.

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 MU8890.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Motion Pictures 1912–1939 (Library of Congress, 1951), Project Gutenberg #51836, lines 33843–33847.

  THE CAUSE OF GOITER. Atlas Educational Film Co. © 1938. 1,511 ft.,
    b&w, 35 mm.

    © Dr. Horry M. Jones; title, descr. & 12 prints, 12Nov38; MU8890.

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