SALUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON
SALUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON. Universal- International, 1950. 15 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Summary: A musical short. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; film editor, Danny B. Landres, Cast: Duke Ellington, Kay Davis, Johnny Hodges, Ray Nance, Harry Carney
Registration MP514 Renewed
- Term began
- 1950-08-31
- Claimant
- Universal Pictures Co., Inc
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal R680868 filed (date unreadable) by (claimant unreadable) (number+year; CCE 1977, OCR line 187442)
- 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 R680868 (link: number+year, title similarity 0.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- MP514 / None
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1977: Internet Archive 1977motionpictur3311213libr, OCR text line 187442
Pictures Company, Inc- 9 31Auy50; By Universal MP514. Universal City Studios, Lac. (PwWH); 19Dec77; R68 0867. R680868.
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 R680868 (link: llm:number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- —
- Renewal date
- —
- Original cited
- None / 31Auy50
- Source
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1977: Internet Archive 1977motionpictur3311213libr, OCR text line 187438
R680867. Salute to Duke Ellingtoa. Pictures Company, Inc- 9 31Auy50; By Universal MP514.
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: “Title corrected from 'Ellingtoa' to 'Ellington' based on context; original date is 31Aug50 (31Auy50 misread as Auy). Renewal number R680868 is listed as a header for the next record, but the surrounding text suggests it belongs to the same 'Salute to Duke Ellington' entry, likely a duplicate or continuation. The renewal claimant is 'Universal City Studios, Inc.' (PWH), with renewal date 19Dec77.”
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 44879–44891.
SALUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON. Universal- International, 1950. 15 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Summary: A musical short. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; film editor, Danny B. Landres, Cast: Duke Ellington, Kay Davis, Johnny Hodges, Ray Nance, Harry Carney. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 31Aug50; MP514,
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