SO YOU WANT TO BUY A USED CAR
Bros. short subject. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Joe McDoakes Comedy) Summary: A satire on the used car market. Joe McDoakes decides to turn in his old jalopy on a newer used car. Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; directed and written by Richard Bare; music, William Lava; film editor, Rex Steele
Registration MP1525 Renewed
- Term began
- 1951-07-07
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE22508 filed 1979-04-05 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6919991)
- 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 RE22508 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1979-04-05
- Original cited
- MP1525 / 1951-07-07
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6919991: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE22508, registered 1979-04-05, for original registration MP1525 published 1951-07-07.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 45049–45062.
Vitaphone Corp., 1951. A Warner Bros. short subject. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Joe McDoakes Comedy) Summary: A satire on the used car market. Joe McDoakes decides to turn in his old jalopy on a newer used car. Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; directed and written by Richard Bare; music, William Lava; film editor, Rex Steele. © The Vitaphone Corp.; 7Jul51; MP1525.
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