THE LION'S BUSY
THE LION'S BUSY. (Merrie Melodies) Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., 1948. 7min., sd., color, 35mm. Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, Tedd Pierce; animation, Arthur Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Ken Champion, Virgil Ross; music, Carl Stalling
Registration MP5121 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1948-12-31
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1975-1977 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1977 (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 1975 or 1976 volume; volumes searched: 1975, 1976, 1977.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 9709–9719.
THE LION'S BUSY. (Merrie Melodies) Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., 1948. 7min., sd., color, 35mm. Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, Tedd Pierce; animation, Arthur Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Ken Champion, Virgil Ross; music, Carl Stalling. © The Vitaphone Corp.; 31Dec48; MP5121.
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