Public Reel

BILLY MAY AND HIS ORCHESTRA

sal Pictures Co., 1952. 15 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. A Universal-International picture. Summary: A musical short featuring Billy May and his orchestra, Marion Colby, the Page Cavanaugh Trio, the Glenns, and the Shepard Bell Ringers. Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; film editor, Milton Carruth

Registration LP1838 Renewed

Term began
1952-06-24
Claimant
Universal Pictures Co., Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE55196 filed 1980-03-26 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6952672)
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 RE55196 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-03-26
Original cited
LP1838 / 1952-06-24
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6952672: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE55196, registered 1980-03-26, for original registration LP1838 published 1952-06-24.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 35920–35932.

sal Pictures Co., 1952. 15 min., sd., b&w, 
35mm. A Universal-International picture. 

Summary: A musical short featuring 
Billy May and his orchestra, Marion Colby, 
the Page Cavanaugh Trio, the Glenns, and 
the Shepard Bell Ringers. 

Credits: Producer and director, Will 
Cowan; film editor, Milton Carruth. 

© Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; 24Jun52; 
LP1838. 

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