English: Screenshot from the beginning of the film Our Mr. Sun (1956). The screenshot is of a quotation from the Bible overlaid on footage of a sunrise.
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The initial copyright for this work is 1956 (N. W. Ayer, US Copyright Office LP9113). A search of the US Copyright Office online records did not show that the copyright was renewed.
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