A search of U.S. copyright renewal records for 1960 and 1961 ([1], [2], [3], [4]) reveals no evidence that the then corporate heir to the corporate author of the work--RKO General--renewed copyrights to this poster or any collection of posters or any collection of material that might encompass this poster as would have been required to maintain copyright protection, if any.
There is no evidence that the work's corporate author's descendant corporation--RKO Pictures LLC--claims or has ever claimed copyright on the image.
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