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SYMPHONY IN SWING

SYMPHONY IN SWING. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., 1949. 15 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Summary: A musical short. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; film editor, Danny B. Landres. Cast: Duke Ellington and his orchestra. Universal Pictures Co., Inc

Registration MP4087 Renewed

Term began
1949-04-28
Claimant
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
Finding
renewal R632651 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (number+year; CCE 1976, OCR line 57295)
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 R632651 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.00)

Renewal claimant
Renewal date
Original cited
M4087 / None
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 57295
Universal Pictures (PWH); 
R632650. 
M4087, 
R632651. 
Sailing with a sonq. 
Pictures Company, Inc. 

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 R632650 (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 0.79)

Renewal claimant
Symphony in swina. Pictures Company, Inc. Universal Pictures (PWH)
Renewal date
Original cited
None / 28Apr49
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 57285
R632€50. 
By Universal 
© 28Apr49; 
30Apr76; 
Symphony in swina. 
Pictures Company, Inc. 

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: “Title likely misread by OCR; 'swina' may be 'swing' or similar. Original number not clearly legible in chunk.”

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 13609–13620.

SYMPHONY IN SWING. Universal Pic- 
tures Co., Inc., 1949. 15 min., sd., 
b&w, 35mm. 

Summary: A musical short. 

Credits: Producer and director, Will 
Cowan; film editor, Danny B. Landres. 
Cast: Duke Ellington and his orchestra. 

Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 
28Apr49; MP4087. 

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