SWALLOW THE LEADER
OYEE. Filmstrip. b&w. © Eastman Kodak Co.; 12Sep49; JP5890. SWALLOW THE LEADER. (Merrie Melodies) Vitaphone Corp.; Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., 1949. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Warren Foster; animation, Phil DeLara, John Carey, Pete Burness, Charles McKimson
Registration MP4642 Renewed
- Term began
- 1949-10-25
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- renewal R627301 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (number+year; CCE 1976, OCR line 54586)
- 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 R627301 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- M4642 / None
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 54586
R627301. Swallow the leader. By The Vitaphone Corporation. € 250ct49 (in notice: 1948); M4642. Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH); 2€Feb76; R627301. R627302.
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 R627301 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- None / Feb76
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 54587
Swallow the leader. By The Vitaphone Corporation. € 250ct49 (in notice: 1948); M4642. Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH); 2€Feb76; R627301. R627302. Bear feat. By The Vitaphone Corpo-
Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 36995–37010.
EMPLOYEE. Filmstrip. b&w. © East- man Kodak Co.; 12Sep49; JP5890. SWALLOW THE LEADER. (Merrie Melo- dies) Vitaphone Corp.; Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., 1949. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Warren Foster; animation, Phil DeLara, John Carey, Pete Burness, Charles McKimson. © The Vitaphone Corp. ; 25Oct49 (in notice; 1948); MP4642.
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