Public Reel

MACDONALD'S FARM

m. (cartoon Melodies Series) ummary: A musical short featuring the songs "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," fpack Home Again in Indiana," and "Pop Goes the Weasel. Designed for audience participation. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; animation supervised by Dave Fleischer; voices, The King's Men

Registration MP1644 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 RE25123 filed 1979-04-06 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6922606)
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 RE25123 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-04-06
Original cited
MP1644 / 1951-09-25
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6922606: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE25123, registered 1979-04-06, for original registration MP1644 published 1951-09-25.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 38427–38440.

(cartoon Melodies Series) 

ummary: A musical short featuring the 
songs "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," fpack 
Home Again in Indiana," and "Pop Goes the 
Weasel. Designed for audience participa- 
tion. 

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

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 25Sep51; 
MP1644, 

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