Public Reel

BROTHER JOHN

N. Universal-International, 1950. 10 min., sd., bkw, 35mm. (Cartoon Melodies Series) Summary: A musical short featuring "T Want My Mama," "Sleepy Time Gal," and "Are You Sleeping Brother John?” Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; animation supervised by Dave Fleischer; voices, The King's Men

Registration MP700 Renewed

Term began
1950-10-18
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE2494 filed 1978-04-27 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6899977)
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 RE2494 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1978-04-27
Original cited
MP700 / 1950-10-18
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6899977: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE2494, registered 1978-04-27, for original registration MP700 published 1950-10-18.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 32351–32364.

BROTHER JOHN. Universal-International, 
1950. 10 min., sd., bkw, 35mm. (Cartoon 
Melodies Series) 

Summary: A musical short featuring 
"T Want My Mama," "Sleepy Time Gal," 
and "Are You Sleeping Brother John?” 

Credits: Producer and director, Will 
Cowan; animation supervised by Dave 
Fleischer; voices, The King's Men. 

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 18Oct50; 
MP700. 

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