Public Reel

DINKY IN THE FOOLISH DUCKLING

d by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm, (Terrytoon Cartoon) Summary: Dinky, the duck, discovers that writing poetry is more profitable than learning to fly. Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, Mannie Davis; story, Tom Morrison; music, Philip A. Scheib. Technicolor

Registration LP1971 Renewed

Term began
1952-05-16
Claimant
Terrytoons, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE57767 filed 1980-05-05 by Viacom International, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6955243)
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 RE57767 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Viacom International, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-05-05
Original cited
LP1971 / 1952-05-16
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6955243: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE57767, registered 1980-05-05, for original registration LP1971 published 1952-05-16.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 38513–38525.

toons. Released by Twentieth Century-Fox 
Film Corp., 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm, 
(Terrytoon Cartoon) 

Summary: Dinky, the duck, discovers that 
writing poetry is more profitable than learn- 
ing to fly. 

Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, 
Mannie Davis; story, Tom Morrison; music, 
Philip A. Scheib. Technicolor. 

© Terrytoons, Inc.; 16May52; LP1971. 

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