Public Reel

A LAUGH A DAY

A LAUGH A DAY. Vitaphone Corp., 1951. A Warner Bros. short subject. 20 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Summary: Selected comedy scenes from early Mack Sennett silent films. Credits: Written by James Bloodworth; music, William Lava; narrator, Art Gilmore

Registration MP1850 Renewed

Term began
1951-11-27
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE22519 filed 1979-04-05 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6920002)
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 RE22519 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-04-05
Original cited
MP1850 / 1951-11-27
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6920002: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE22519, registered 1979-04-05, for original registration MP1850 published 1951-11-27.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 37728–37735.

A LAUGH A DAY. Vitaphone Corp., 1951. 
A Warner Bros. short subject. 20 min., 
sd., b&w, 35mm. 
Summary: Selected comedy scenes from 
early Mack Sennett silent films. 
Credits: Written by James Bloodworth; 
music, William Lava; narrator, Art Gilmore. 
© The Vitaphone Corp.; 27Novs1; MP1850. 

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