Public Reel

MEMORY SONG BOOK

n., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Cartoon Melodies Series) Summary: A musical short featuring the songs "On Top of Old Smoky," ''Polly Put the Kettle On," and 'Harrigan.'' Designed for audience participation. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; animation supervisor, Dave Fleischer; voices, The King's Men

Registration MP2235 Renewed

Term began
1952-02-18
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE55209 filed 1980-03-26 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6952685)
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 RE55209 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-03-26
Original cited
MP2235 / 1952-02-18
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6952685: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE55209, registered 1980-03-26, for original registration MP2235 published 1952-02-18.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 10789–10802.

10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Cartoon Melo- 
dies Series) 

Summary: A musical short featuring the 
songs "On Top of Old Smoky," ''Polly Put 
the Kettle On," and 'Harrigan.'' Designed 
for audience participation. 

Credits: Producer and director, Will 
Cowan; animation supervisor, Dave 
Fleischer; voices, The King's Men. 

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 18Feb52; 
MP2235. 

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