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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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