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SING WHILE YOU WORK

y: A musical short which features “Anchors Away,” “Casey Jones,” “‘Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer,” and ‘I’m Sitting on Top of the World. Designed for audience participation. Credits: Director, Benjamin R. Parker; screenplay, Courtney Leigh; editor, Leonard Anderson; voices, The Hastings Quartette

Registration MP3850 Renewed

Term began
1949-01-31
Claimant
Universal International Pictures Co.,, Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding
renewal R633668 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (number+year; CCE 1976, OCR line 57727)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2045 (95 years from the 1949 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal R633668 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
M3850 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 57727
Sing while you work. By Universal 
Pictures Company, Inc. © 31Jan49 (in 
notice: 1948); M3850. Universal Pictures 
(PWH); 30Apr76; k633667. 
R633668. 

Low confidence. This number was found loose in a stretch of OCR where two printed columns are interleaved, so its own © date clause could not be read; the link rests on the number and the renewal year alone. Read the page image before relying on it.

Renewal R633668 (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
M3850. Universal Pictures (PWH)
Renewal date
Original cited
33667 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 57720
Company, Inc. © 31Jan49 (in notice: 
1948); M3849. Universal Pictures (PWH) ; 
30Apr7E; F633666. 
RE€33667. 
Sing while you work. By Universal 

This link was made after a language model re-read the damaged OCR (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro); the reading was accepted only because the number and date or title it reported agree with the catalog. Its note: “Renewal number R633668 appears in the chunk as 'R633668' following the record for 'Sing while you work'. The original number is M3850 (MP3850). The renewal date is 30Apr76, and the renewal claimant is Universal Pictures (PWH).”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 12569–12583.

Summary: A musical short which 
features “Anchors Away,” “Casey 
Jones,” “‘Coming in on a Wing and a 
Prayer,” and ‘I’m Sitting on Top of the 
World. Designed for audience partici- 
pation. 

Credits: Director, Benjamin R. Parker; 
screenplay, Courtney Leigh; editor, 
Leonard Anderson; voices, The Hastings 
Quartette. 

© Universal International Pictures 
Co.,, Inc.; 31Jan49 (in notice: 1948) ; 
MP3850. 

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