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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