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SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN OPERA- TION

SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN OPERA- TION. Vitaphone Corp., 1950. A Warner Bros. short subject. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Joe McDoakes Comedy) Credits: Directed and written by Richard Bare; music, William Lava; film editor, Rex Stelle. Cast: George O'Hanlon

Registration MP890 Renewed

Term began
1950-12-31
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE4542 filed 1978-06-19 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6902025)
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 RE4542 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.90)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1978-06-19
Original cited
MP890 / 1950-12-31
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6902025: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE4542, registered 1978-06-19, for original registration MP890 published 1950-12-31.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 17551–17560.

SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN OPERA- 
TION. Vitaphone Corp., 1950. A Warner 
Bros. short subject. 10 min., sd., b&w, 
35mm. (Joe McDoakes Comedy) 

Credits: Directed and written by Richard 
Bare; music, William Lava; film editor, 
Rex Stelle. Cast: George O'Hanlon. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 31Dec50; MP890. 

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