SO YOU WANT TO BE A BACHELOR
HELOR. Vitaphone Corp., 1951. A Warner Bros. short subject. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Joe McDoakes Comedy) Summary: Joe McDoakes reviews his marital status and thinks of his carefree bachelor days. Credits: Directed and written by Richard Bare; music director, William Lava; film editor, William Shea
Registration MP1733 Renewed
- Term began
- 1951-10-29
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE22514 filed 1979-04-05 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6919997)
- 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 RE22514 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1979-04-05
- Original cited
- MP1733 / 1951-10-29
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6919997: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE22514, registered 1979-04-05, for original registration MP1733 published 1951-10-29.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 45011–45029.
SO YOU WANT ne BE A BACHELOR. Vita- phone Corp., 1951. A Warner Bros. short 118 subject. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Joe McDoakes Comedy) Summary: Joe McDoakes reviews his marital status and thinks of his carefree bachelor days. Credits: Directed and written by Richard Bare; music director, William Lava; film editor, William Shea, © The Vitaphone Corp.; 29Oct51; MP1733.
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