A HAM IN A ROLE
OF TURMOIL. JP6283. SEE Report on the News, Mar., 1950. A HAM IN A ROLE. (Merrie Melodies) Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., 1950. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Sid Marcus; animation, Charles McKimson, Phil DeLara, J. C. Melendez, Emery Hawkins; music, Carl Stalling
Registration MP5118 Renewed
- Term began
- 1950-01-06
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- renewal R627356 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (number+year; CCE 1976, OCR line 54618)
- Enters the public domain
- 1 January 2046 (95 years from the 1950 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 R627356 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- M5118 / None
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 54618
R627305. A Ham in a role. By The Vitaphone Corporation. ¢ 6Jan50 (in notice: 1948) ; M5118. Warner Brothers, Inc. (EWH); 26Feb76; R€27305. RE€27356.
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 R627358 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- 27357 / None
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 54636
Affairs of a rogue. By Columbia Pictures Corporation. © 17Feb49; 12103. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH); 1Mar76; 627357. R627358. Slightly French. By Columbia Pictures Cerporation. © 17Feb49; 12104. Columbia
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.
Renewal (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- 27356 / None
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 54621
Corporation. ¢ 6Jan50 (in notice: 1948) ; M5118. Warner Brothers, Inc. (EWH); 26Feb76; R€27305. RE€27356. Ladies of the chorus. By Columbia
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.
Renewal (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- 27305 / None
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 54619
A Ham in a role. By The Vitaphone Corporation. ¢ 6Jan50 (in notice: 1948) ; M5118. Warner Brothers, Inc. (EWH); 26Feb76; R€27305. RE€27356. Ladies of the chorus. By Columbia
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.
Renewal R627305 (link: llm:date+title, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- 627304 / Feb76
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 54613
Corporation. © 6Feb50 (in notice: 1948); M5085. Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH); 2€Feb76; 627304. R627305. A Ham in a role. By The Vitaphone Corporation. ¢ 6Jan50 (in notice: 1948) ; M5118. Warner Brothers, Inc. (EWH);
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: “OCR misread '©' as '¢' and 'PWH' as 'EWH' in the surrounding line; renewal number R627305 is clearly associated with 'A Ham in a role'.”
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 7097–7111.
HALF CENTURY OF TURMOIL. JP6283. SEE Report on the News, Mar., 1950. A HAM IN A ROLE. (Merrie Melodies) Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., 1950. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Sid Marcus; animation, Charles McKimson, Phil DeLara, J. C. Melendez, Emery Hawkins; music, Carl Stalling. © The Vitaphone Corp.; 6Jan50 (in notice: 1948); MP5118.
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