Public Reel

SO YOU WANT TO GO TO A CONVENTION

in., sd., b&w, 35mm, (Joe McDoakes Comedy) A Warner Bros. short subject. Summary: Instead of attending a convention, Joe McDoakes and a friend go to Palm Springs where all goes well until Joe's wife discovers the deception. Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; directed and written by Richard Bare

Registration MP2512 Renewed

Term began
1952-07-21
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE51476 filed 1980-02-20 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6948952)
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 RE51476 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-02-20
Original cited
MP2512 / 1952-07-21
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6948952: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE51476, registered 1980-02-20, for original registration MP2512 published 1952-07-21.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 50198–50210.

Vitaphone Corp., 1952. 10 min., sd., b&w, 
35mm, (Joe McDoakes Comedy) A Warner 
Bros. short subject. 

Summary: Instead of attending a conven- 
tion, Joe McDoakes and a friend go to Palm 
Springs where all goes well until Joe's 
wife discovers the deception. 

Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; 
directed and written by Richard Bare, 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 21Jul52; MP2512, 

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