Public Reel

PUNY EXPRESS

PUNY EXPRESS. Universal International, 1951. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Walter Lantz Cartune) Credits: Story, Ben Hardaway, Heck Allen; animation, Ray Abrams, Don Patterson, La Verne Harding; music, Clarence E. Wheeler

Registration MP1181 Renewed

Term began
1951-04-18
Claimant
Universal International
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE2500 filed 1978-04-27 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6899983)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2047 (95 years from the 1951 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 RE2500 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1978-04-27
Original cited
MP1181 / 1951-04-18
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6899983: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE2500, registered 1978-04-27, for original registration MP1181 published 1951-04-18.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 15688–15698.

PUNY EXPRESS. Universal International, 
1951. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Walter 
Lantz Cartune) 

Credits: Story, Ben Hardaway, Heck Allen; 
animation, Ray Abrams, Don Patterson, 
La Verne Harding; music, Clarence E. 
Wheeler. 

© Universal International; 18Apr51 (in 
notice: 1950); MP1181. 

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