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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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