Public Reel

PETE HOTHEAD

y Columbia Pictures Corp., 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm, (Jolly Frolics) Summary: A parrot and a portable radio are the cause of much confusion. Credits: Director, Pete Burness; story, Bill Scott, Phil Eastman; animation, Cecil Surry, Rudy Larriva, Phil Monroel, Pat Matthews; music, Hoyt S. Curtin

Registration LP1947 Renewed

Term began
1952-09-25
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE49571 filed 1980-02-01 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6947047)
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 RE49571 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-02-01
Original cited
LP1947 / 1952-09-25
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6947047: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE49571, registered 1980-02-01, for original registration LP1947 published 1952-09-25.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 47953–47966.

America. Released by Columbia Pictures 
Corp., 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm, 
(Jolly Frolics) 

Summary: A parrot and a portable radio 
are the cause of much confusion. 

Credits: Director, Pete Burness; story, 
Bill Scott, Phil Eastman; animation, Cecil 
Surry, Rudy Larriva, Phil Monroel, Pat 
Matthews; music, Hoyt S. Curtin. 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 25Sep52; 
LP1947,. 

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