20, 1945
945. News of the nation: Wasp 40. [carrier ] brings GI’s home; fatal train wreck; President honors heroes. Here’s Canada’s idea for solving home shortage—~aluminum. Volcano erupts in New Zealand. Stone age football. Sports: skiing in high cascades; canoe racing in Cambodia; atom weight championship.
Registration MP73 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1945-12-20
- Claimant
- 2c 1-10-46, synopsis
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1972-1974 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1974 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)
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 no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.
A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1972 or 1973 volume; volumes searched: 1972, 1973, 1974.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, New Series, Part 1 Group 3: Dramatic Compositions, Motion Pictures, 1946, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig191libr (OCR text), lines 76355–76365.
Dec, 20, 1945. News of the nation: Wasp 40. [carrier ] brings GI’s home; fatal train wreck; President honors heroes. Here’s Canada’s idea for solving home shortage—~aluminum. Volcano erupts in New Zealand. Stone age football. Sports: skiing in high cascades; canoe racing in Cambodia; atom weight championship. © 12-20-45; 2c 1-10-46, synopsis; M 73. Dec. 21, 1945, 1945 year of victory, newsreel
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