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HILLY BILLY

es) Summary: A musical short featuring the songs, She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain," "Trail of the Lonesome Pine," and "The Bear Went over the Mountain.” Designed for audience participation. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; animation supervised by Dave Fleischer; voices, The King's Men

Registration MP1645 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 RE21246 filed 1979-02-21 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6918729)
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 RE21246 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-02-21
Original cited
MP1645 / 1951-09-25
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6918729: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE21246, registered 1979-02-21, for original registration MP1645 published 1951-09-25.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 35933–35946.

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Summary: A musical short featuring the 
songs, She'll Be Comin' Round the Moun- 
tain," "Trail of the Lonesome Pine," and 
"The Bear Went over the Mountain.” De- 
signed for audience participation. 

Credits: Producer and director, Will 
Cowan; animation supervised by Dave 
Fleischer; voices, The King's Men. 

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 25Sep51; 
MP1645, 

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