Public Reel

CORKY OF GASOLINE ALLEY

bout a black-sheep relative who plans to enjoy his in-laws! hospitality indefinitely. Credits: Producer, Wallace MacDonald; written and directed by Edward Bernds; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Jerome Thoms. Cast: Scotty Beckett, Jimmy Lydon, Don Beddoe, Gordon Jones, Patti Brady

Registration LP1207 Renewed

Term began
1951-09-28
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE20401 filed 1979-04-02 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6917884)
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 RE20401 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-04-02
Original cited
LP1207 / 1951-09-28
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6917884: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE20401, registered 1979-04-02, for original registration LP1207 published 1951-09-28.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 32507–32519.

Summary: A comedy about a black-sheep 
relative who plans to enjoy his in-laws! 
hospitality indefinitely. 

Credits: Producer, Wallace MacDonald; 
written and directed by Edward Bernds; 
music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film 
editor, Jerome Thoms. Cast: Scotty 
Beckett, Jimmy Lydon, Don Beddoe, Gordon 
Jones, Patti Brady. 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 28Sep51; 
LP1207. 

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