DOWN THE RIVER
w, 35mm. (Cartoon Melodies Series) Summary: A musical short featuring the songs "Cruising Down the River," ''Beautiful Ohio," and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." Designed for audience participation. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; animation supervised by Dave Fleischer; voices, The King's Men
Registration MP1656 Renewed
- Term began
- 1951-09-25
- Claimant
- Universal Pictures Co., Inc
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE21258 filed 1979-02-21 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6918741)
- 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 RE21258 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1979-02-21
- Original cited
- MP1656 / 1951-09-25
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6918741: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE21258, registered 1979-02-21, for original registration MP1656 published 1951-09-25.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 33298–33311.
1951. 10 min,, sd., b&w, 35mm. (Cartoon Melodies Series) Summary: A musical short featuring the songs "Cruising Down the River," ''Beautiful Ohio," and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." Designed for audience participation. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; animation supervised by Dave Fleischer; voices, The King's Men. © Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 25Sep51; MP1656.
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