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PARDON US PENGUINS

PARDON US PENGUINS. Paramount Pictures Corp., 1952. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Topper Series) Summary: Features the antics of two Peruvian penguins which belong to a circus in the United States. Credits: Producer, John A. Haeseler; narrator, Ward Wilson

Registration MP2659 Renewed

Term began
1952-07-25
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE76123 filed 1980-12-22 by Harvey Films, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6973599)
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 RE76123 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Harvey Films, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-12-22
Original cited
MP2659 / 1952-07-25
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6973599: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE76123, registered 1980-12-22, for original registration MP2659 published 1952-07-25.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 47691–47703.

PARDON US PENGUINS. Paramount Pic- 
tures Corp., 1952. 10 min., sd., b&w, 
35mm. (Topper Series) 

Summary: Features the antics of two 
Peruvian penguins which belong to a circus 
in the United States. 

Credits: Producer, John A. Haeseler; 
narrator, Ward Wilson. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 25Jul52; 
MP2659. 

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