BILLY MAY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
toons, 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Looney Tune Cartoon) Summary: Sylvester, the cat, tries to catch Tweety Bird in a department store. Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, Warren Foster; animation, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis; music director, Carl Stalling. Technicolor
Registration MP2738 (part 92: CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES BIOLOGICAL WARFARE (Filmstrip) Mc- Graw-Hill Book Co., 1952) Renewed
- Term began
- 1952-09-02
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE12233 filed 1979-01-19 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6909716)
- 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 RE12233 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.06)
- Renewal claimant
- Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1979-01-19
- Original cited
- MP2738 / 1952-09-02
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6909716: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE12233, registered 1979-01-19, for original registration MP2738 published 1952-09-02.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 35956–35968.
Cartoons, 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Looney Tune Cartoon) Summary: Sylvester, the cat, tries to catch Tweety Bird in a department store. Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, Warren Foster; animation, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis; music director, Carl Stalling. Technicolor. © The Vitaphone Corp.; 2Sep52 (in notice: 1951); MP2738.
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