FRANCIS

his highly successful military strategy was developed by Francis, a talking Army mule. Credits: Producer, Robert Arthur; director, Arthur Lubin; screenplay, David Stern; music, Frank Skinner; film editor, Milton Carruth. Cast: Donald O'Connor, Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts, Ray Collins, John McIntire

Registration LP101 No renewal found

Term began

1950-03-17

Claimant

Universal Pictures Co., Inc

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1977-1979 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025

In the public domain since

1 January 1979 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1977 or 1978 volume; volumes searched: 1977, 1978, 1979.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 6063–6075.

that his highly successful military strategy 
was developed by Francis, a talking Army 
mule. 

Credits: Producer, Robert Arthur; 
director, Arthur Lubin; screenplay, David 
Stern; music, Frank Skinner; film editor, 
Milton Carruth. Cast: Donald O'Connor, 
Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts, Ray Collins, 
John McIntire. 

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 17Mar50 
(in notice: 1949); LP101. 

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