SO YOU WANT TO BE A PLUMBER
mm. (Joe McDoakes Comedy) A Warner Bros. short subject. Summary: Joe McDoakes attempts to repair the leaky pipes in the cellar of his home without the assistance of a plumber. Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; directed and written by Richard Bare; music, William Lava; film editor, William Shea
Registration MP2260 Renewed
- Term began
- 1952-05-06
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE22528 filed 1979-04-05 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6920011)
- 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 RE22528 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1979-04-05
- Original cited
- MP2260 / 1952-05-06
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6920011: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE22528, registered 1979-04-05, for original registration MP2260 published 1952-05-06.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 17444–17462.
phone Corp., 1952. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Joe McDoakes Comedy) A Warner Bros. short subject. Summary: Joe McDoakes attempts to re- pair the leaky pipes in the cellar of his home without the assistance of a plumber. Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; directed and written by Richard Bare; music, William Lava; film editor, William Shea. © The Vitaphone Corp.; 6May52 (in notice: 1951); MP2260.
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