Public Reel

THE DOG SNATCHER

35mm. (The Near-Sighted Mr. Magoo) Summary: Mr. Magoo returns home from the circus leading a ferocious panther which he has mistaken for his dog. Credits: Producer and director, Peter Burness; story, Bill Scott, Paul Schneider; animation, Paul Larriver, Cecil Surry; music, William Lava. Technicolor

Registration LP1790 Renewed

Term began
1952-05-29
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE49307 filed 1980-01-28 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6946783)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 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 RE49307 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.76)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-28
Original cited
LP1790 / 1952-05-29
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6946783: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE49307, registered 1980-01-28, for original registration LP1790 published 1952-05-29.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 4404–4417.

35mm. (The Near-Sighted Mr. Magoo) 

Summary: Mr. Magoo returns home from 
the circus leading a ferocious panther 
which he has mistaken for his dog. 

Credits: Producer and director, Peter 
Burness; story, Bill Scott, Paul Schneider; 
animation, Paul Larriver, Cecil Surry; 
music, William Lava. Technicolor. 


© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 29May52; 
LP1790. 

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