Public Reel

MAN'S BEST FRIEND

Productions. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, 1951. 6 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Goofy Cartoon) Credits: Director, Jack Kinney; story, Milt Banta, Al Bertino; animation, George Nicholas, Charles Nichols, John Sibley, Hugh Fraser; effects animation, George Rowley; music, Joseph S. Dubin. Technicolor

Registration LP1595 Renewed

Term began
1951-11-16
Claimant
Walt Disney Productions
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE38394 filed 1979-11-19 by Walt Disney Productions (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6935875)
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 RE38394 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Walt Disney Productions (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-11-19
Original cited
LP1595 / 1951-11-16
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6935875: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE38394, registered 1979-11-19, for original registration LP1595 published 1951-11-16.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 10534–10547.

MAN'S BEST FRIEND. Walt Disney Produc- 
tions. Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, 
1951. 6 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Goofy 
Cartoon) 

Credits: Director, Jack Kinney; story, 
Milt Banta, Al Bertino; animation, George 
Nicholas, Charles Nichols, John Sibley, 
Hugh Fraser; effects animation, George 
Rowley; music, Joseph S. Dubin. Techni- 
color. 

© Walt Disney Productions; 16Nov51; 
LP1595. 

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