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Motion Pictures
1950-1959
CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES
Cumulative Series
Motion Pictures
1950-1959
1960
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Table of Contents
Page
Motion Pictures, 1950-1959
1
Index
395
Series List
483
v
Preface
Motion Pictures, 1950-1959, is a cumulative catalog listing works registered in the Copyright Office in
Classes L and M from January 1, 1950, through December 31, 1959. The series of cumulative catalogs
began in 1951 with Motion Pictures, 1912-1939, and continued with Motion Pictures, 1940-1949,
published in 1953. A third volume, Motion Pictures, 1894-1912, was published also in 1953 (though not
as a part of the series); it lists works copyrighted prior to 1912 which were identified as motion pictures
by Howard Lamarr Walls. These four volumes, together with the current issues of the Catalog of
Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12-13, Motion Pictures and Filmstrips, comprise an unbroken
record of the copyright registration of motion pictures and, also, an extensive although not complete
record of motion picture production in the United States through the entire history of the industry.
The information given in the entries for the period 1950-1959 is that which was recorded in catalog
entries made at the time of registration. These entries recorded information taken from the original
applications for the registration of the copyright claims, from descriptive material deposited with the
applications and films at the time of registration, and from the films themselves. Slight changes in format
of the entries have been made in some cases for the sake of overall consistency with present practices;
these do not affect the essential facts presented. Entries for filmstrips registered in Class J have been
omitted from the cumulative catalogs.
Each entry contains information which describes the film and identifies the copyright claimant, the
date of the beginning of the copyright term, and the copyright registration number.
The entries for unpublished works contain the date or dates of deposit in the Copyright Office of the
title, description, and required prints. The entries for published works contain date of publication as
given in the application for registration. Deposit of published copies has in every case been made.
The name of the claimant is that given in the application. Information relating to renewal copyrights or
to subsequent changes of ownership recorded in the Copyright Office can be ascertained upon request
and upon payment to the Register of Copyrights of the fee specified in the law for the conduct of a search
of the records. In addition, information relating to renewal copyrights can be secured by referring to
issues of the Catalog of Copyright Entries covering renewal registrations for the particular class of work
during the renewal period.
The publication of the Catalog of Copyright Entries is authorized by sections 210 and 211 of Title 17 of
the United States Code. Section 210 provides in part: “The current catalog of copyright entries and the
index volumes herein provided for shall be admitted in any court as prima facie evidence of the facts
stated therein as regards any copyright registration.”
The purpose of the cumulative catalogs is threefold: 1) to meet the administrative needs of the
Copyright Office; 2) to provide compact index volumes to the legal profession, publishers, authors, and
others interested in copyright; and 3) to make available, for other research uses, the information on
record in the Copyright Office, much of which is not available elsewhere.
The Copyright Office welcomes inquires, suggestions, and comments on the content and organization
of the Catalog. Such communications should be addressed to the Chief of the Cataloging Division,
Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington 25, D. C.
Copyright Registrations of Motion Pictures
January 1, 1950-December 31, 1959
Class L, Motion-picture photoplays
15,512
Class M, Motion pictures other than photoplays
11,798
Total
27,310
vi
How To Use This Catalog
This catalog consists of three parts: Motion Pictures, 1950-1959, which is a list of main entries under
title; an Index of names; and a Series List. Each part is arranged alphabetically.
Motion Pictures, 1950-1959
The items which constitute each entry in this section are given below in the order in which they
appear. The title, name of the claimant, copyright date, and registration number are always given; other
items are included if applicable to the motion picture and available.
1. Title. Main title, followed by subtitle, translated title, and alternate title. Cross-references are made
for alternate and translated titles.
2. Production statement. The name of the producing company, i.e., the company responsible for the
existence of the picture, follows the title. In some instances two companies or organizations are
concerned with the production of a film, one with the physical production, i.e., photographing,
editing, sound recording, etc., the other with planning, distributing, and sponsoring the motion
picture. In such case the company concerned with physical production is named first, followed
by the preposition for and the name of the other company. The name of a foreign producing
company is followed by the name of the city or country in which it is located. When the name of
a person or organization is given in the records of the Copyright Office preceded by the phrase
presented by, the name, together with the phrase, follows the date (see item 3 below). The
name of the releasing company appears following the producer, when it differs from the
producer.
3. Date. For published works of the period 1950-1953, the year date of copyright, preceded by a
lower case c (e.g., c1951), follows the production statement. If a production date different from
the copyright year date is given in the records, this information follows the copyright date. In all
other entries date information follows the copyright symbol (see item 6b below).
4. Physical description. A full physical description contains information relating to 1) the length of the
film, given in running time, footage, number of reels or frames; 2) color or black and white
versions; 3) name of color process when stated in the deposited materials; 4) sound or silent
versions; 5) width of the film.
5. Notes. Certain information available in the deposited materials is given in the form of notes:
a. Terms identifying special optical or sound systems.
b. The title of the series to which a motion picture belongs.
c. Phrases further identifying persons or organizations connected with the production of a
motion picture, such as Warner Bros.-First National picture, Frank Capra production,
etc.
d. Information relating to other titles by which the motion picture is known, to other
versions, to related material to be used in connection with the showing of the motion
picture, or to the source material on which the motion picture is based, including the
authors of such material when available.
e. Names of additional authors specified on the application which do not appear elsewhere in
the entry.
f. Name of the employer in the case of a work made for hire, if so named in the application,
together with the names of the employees when known.
g. Information contained in the application which relates to the registration of an earlier
version of the work.
h. Brief statement of the new matter on which copyright is claimed, preceded by the
abbreviation “NM,” if this information is given in the application and is not indicated
elsewhere in the entry.
6 . Copyright claimant, date, and registration number. This statement begins with the copyright
symbol ©, and continues with the following:
a. Name of the copyright claimant as it is given in the application.
b. The date of the beginning of the term of copyright: for published works, the date of
publication as given in the application; for unpublished works, the date on which the
last of all the items required to complete registration (i.e., description and
representative prints, application, and fee) was received in the Copyright Office.
c. The registration number, preceded by the respective class symbol (L, motion-picture
photoplays; M, motion pictures other than photoplays) and, also, immediately after the
class symbol, the letter P to designate a published work, or U, an unpublished work.
For published works, whenever it is necessary to indicate a variation between the information given in
the application and in the copy of the work with respect to the claimant’s name or date of publication, the
data from the application are given first, followed by the phrase “in notice” and the data given in the
work: e.g., © Richard Roe & Co.; 19Jan59 (in notice: 1958).
In the case of motion pictures produced as serials, information relating to the entire serial precedes
that relating to the individual numbers or episodes in the serial. More than one entry of a serial is made
whenever the descriptive information varies for different parts of the serial. Individual issues of a serial
are listed in numerical sequence or by date, or alphabetically by issue title. In those cases where the
name or form of name of the claimant has changed, the issues claimed under a specific name are listed
below it. The copyright symbol © always appears immediately before the name of the copyright
claimant and the copyright date whenever they are in separate statements. When duplicate numbers
appear in a sequence of issues, arrangement of the duplicates is by copyright date. Omission of an item in
a sequence does not necessarily mean that the item has not been registered in the Copyright Office, since
it may be included in the catalog under its specific title.
viii
Index
The second section of this catalog lists the names of the persons and organizations associated with the
production of the motion pictures described in the main section and of the authors of the novels, dramas,
or other works upon which these motion pictures are based. Similar names have been listed separately
unless it is clear that they identify the same person or organization. Cross-references from different
forms of the same name and from pseudonyms are included in the list.
Under each name the titles of the motion pictures associated with it are listed alphabetically.
Series List
The third section of this catalog lists the series titles which are given in the main entries. These
frequently appear in varying forms. For each series, therefore, an established form, based on the one
most frequently used, is given in the heading. Following the heading are references to other series titles
which seem to be related because the names are similar and the claimants are the same. Listed below
the headings are, first, the names of the claimants, and, second, the titles of the motion pictures, each
followed by its date. In the case of serials, the word serial, enclosed in parentheses, is used in lieu of a
date.
The lists of titles under each series may be incomplete for the period covered by this catalog, because
only those titles have been included which appear in the published catalogs for this period. For some
motion pictures two series titles are given, each of which is entered separately, since the information
available makes it impossible to differentiate between main series and subseries.
a.k.a.
appl.
b&w
c
©
d.b.a.
descr.
ft.
LP
LU
min.
mm.
MP
MU
prev.
pseud.
reg.
sd.
si.
t.a.
Abbreviations and Symbols
The following list includes abbreviations and symbols used in this catalog with specific copyright or
bibliographic meanings. Definitions are not given for abbreviations in common use.
—also known as
—application
—black and white
—copyright
—copyright symbol
—doing business as
—description
—feet
—published motion-picture photoplays
—unpublished motion-picture photoplays
—minutes
—millimeters
—published motion pictures other than photoplays
—unpublished motion pictures other than photoplays
—previous
—pseudonym
—registered, registration
—sound
—silent
—trading as
Motion Pictures, 1950-1959
An alphabetical list, under title, of the main entries for motion pictures which were registered for
copyright during the years 1950-1959. For full information relating to the contents of these entries, see
How To Use This Catalog, p. VII.
1
A
ABC ART ADVENTURES. SEE Unk and Andy Art Adventures.
THE ABC’S OF FLASHOVERS. General Electric Co. 16 min., sd., color, 16mm. Kodachrome. ©
General Electric Co.; 23Nov54; MP5750.
A IS FOR ATOM. General Electric Co. Made by John Sutherland Productions. 10 min., sd., color,
35mm. Ansco color. © General Electric Co.; 18Feb53; MP3815.
A IS FOR ATOM. General Electric Co., 1953. Made by John Sutherland Productions. 15 min., sd.,
color, 16mm. Kodachrome. © General Electric Co.; 1Jun53 (in notice: 1952); MP3572.
AWOL. SEE You’ll Never Get Rich.
AARON SLICK FROM PUNKIN CRICK. Paramount Pictures Corp., 1952. 95 min., sd., color, 35mm.
Based on the play of the same title by Walter Benjamin Hare. © Paramount Pictures Corp.;
18Feb52 (in notice: 1951); LP1652.
THE AARONSBURG STORY. The Aaronsburg Story Corp., 1951. Produced by Cineffects. 27 min.,
sd., b&w, 16mm. © The Aaronsburg story, The Aaronsburg Story Corp., owners; 18Dec51;
MP2031.
ABANDON SHIP. Copa Productions. Released by Columbia Pictures Corp. 10 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm.
© Copa Productions, Ltd., 1May57 (in notice: 1956); LP9078.
EL ABANDONADO. (Abandoned) Filmadora Chapultepec, Mexico. Released in the U. S. by
Importadors. 84 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. © Importadora, Inc.; 1Sep49; LP11570.
ABANDONED. SEE
El Abandonado.
26 Men.
ABBE AND THE NYMPH. SEE I Spy.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO GO TO MARS. Universal Pictures Co., 1953. 77 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. A
Universal International picture. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 10Mar53; LP2430.
ABBOTT & COSTELLO IN THE FOREIGN LEGION. Universal International, 1950. 80 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 11Aug50; LP266.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN KIDD. Woodley Productions. Released by Warner Bros.
Pictures, 1952. 70 min., sd., color, 35mm. © Woodley Productions, Inc.; 17Dec52; LP2173.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. Universal Pictures Co. 76 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm. A Universal International picture. Based on stories by Sidney Fields and Grant
Garrett. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 26Jun53; LP2722.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., 1949. 83 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 8Sep49 (in notice: 1948); LP2719.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN. Universal International Pictures Co., 1951.
82 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Suggested by “The Invisible Man” by H. G. Wells. © Universal Pictures
Co., Inc.; 18Apr51; LP877.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS. Universal Pictures Co. 8 reels, sd., b&w,
35mm. A Universal International picture. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 1Dec54; LP4313.
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY. Universal Pictures Co. 9 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm. A
Universal International picture. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 3Mar55; LP4561.
ABBY, JULIA, AND THE SEVEN PET COWS. SEE Telephone Time.
THE ABDUCTORS. Regal Films in association with Griffin Co. Released by Twentieth Century-Fox
Film Corp. 80 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. RegalScope. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 10Jul57;
LP8802.
ABDULLAH’S HAREM. Rodi Regeila production with Misr Universal Film Cairo, and Sphinx Film.
Released in the U. S. by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 98 min., sd., color, 35mm. Based on the
original story My Kingdom for a Woman, by Ismet Regeila. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.;
12Jun56; LP6939.
THE ABEL CASE. SEE The Line-Up.
ABILENE TRAIL. Monogram Pictures Corp., 1951. 63 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. © Monogram Pictures
Corp.; 4Feb51; LP693.
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN. Panda Productions. 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. © Panda Productions,
Inc.; 31Mar54; LP3807.
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF THE HIMALAYAS. Buzz Productions, in association with
Clarion Films. Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 85 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. A Regal
Films production. RegalScope. Based on the play The Creature, by Nigel Kneale. © Twentieth
Century-Fox Film Corp.; 29Oct57; LP9442.
