Public Reel

REUBEN, REUBEN

b&w, 35mm. (Cartoon Melodies Series) Summary: A musical short featuring the songs "If You Knew Susie," "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland," and ''Reuben, Reuben." Designed for audience participation. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; animation supervisor, Dave Fleischer; voices, The King's Men

Registration MP1853 Renewed

Term began
1951-11-26
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE21284 filed 1979-02-12 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6918767)
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 RE21284 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-02-12
Original cited
MP1853 / 1951-11-26
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6918767: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE21284, registered 1979-02-12, for original registration MP1853 published 1951-11-26.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 43651–43664.

Pictures Co., 1951. 10 min., sd., b&w, 
35mm. (Cartoon Melodies Series) 

Summary: A musical short featuring the 
songs "If You Knew Susie," "Meet Me To- 
night in Dreamland," and ''Reuben, Reuben." 
Designed for audience participation. 

Credits: Producer and director, Will 
Cowan; animation supervisor, Dave Fleis- 
cher; voices, The King's Men. 

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 26Nov51; 
MP1853. 

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