Public Reel

FRIEND OR PHONY

FRIEND OR PHONY. Paramount Pictures Corp., 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm, (Popeye the Sailor Cartoon) Summary: Scheming Bluto fails to trick Popeye into throwing away his spinach. Credits: Director, I. Sparber; story, Irving Spector; animation, Al Eugster, George Germanetti; music, Winston Sharples

Registration LP1792 Renewed

Term began
1952-06-20
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE62100 filed 1980-06-23 by United Artists Television, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6959576)
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 RE62100 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
United Artists Television, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-06-23
Original cited
LP1792 / 1952-06-20
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6959576: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE62100, registered 1980-06-23, for original registration LP1792 published 1952-06-20.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 6143–6156.

FRIEND OR PHONY. Paramount Pictures 
Corp., 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm, 
(Popeye the Sailor Cartoon) 

Summary: Scheming Bluto fails to trick 
Popeye into throwing away his spinach. 

Credits: Director, I. Sparber; story, 
Irving Spector; animation, Al Eugster, 
George Germanetti; music, Winston 
Sharples. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 20Jun52; 
LP1792. 

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