SO YOU NEVER TELL A LIE
SO YOU NEVER TELL A LIE. Vitaphone Corp., 1952. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm, (Joe McDoakes Comedy) A Warner Bros. short subject. Summary: Mrs. McDoakes unfortunately remembers the watch her husband has promised her. Credits: Directed and written by Richard Bare. Cast: George O'Hanlon
Registration MP2717 Renewed
- Term began
- 1952-08-25
- Claimant
- The Vitaphone Corp
- Class
- MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE51477 filed 1980-02-20 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6948953)
- 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 RE51477 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1980-02-20
- Original cited
- MP2717 / 1952-08-25
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6948953: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE51477, registered 1980-02-20, for original registration MP2717 published 1952-08-25.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 50182–50194.
SO YOU NEVER TELL A LIE. Vitaphone Corp., 1952. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm, (Joe McDoakes Comedy) A Warner Bros. short subject. Summary: Mrs. McDoakes unfortunately remembers the watch her husband has promised her. Credits: Directed and written by Richard Bare. Cast: George O'Hanlon. © The Vitaphone Corp.; 25Aug52; MP2717.
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