Public Reel

THE TALKING MAGPIES IN PILL PED- DLERS

min., sd., color, 35mm. (Terrytoon Cartoon) Summary: An animated cartoon. Heckle and Jeckle, the talking magpies, encounter resistance when they attempt to sell a wonder vitamin pill. Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, Connie Rasinski; story, Tom Morrison; music, Philip A. Scheib. Technicolor

Registration LP2181 Renewed

Term began
1952-12-13
Claimant
Terrytoons, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE56321 filed 1980-04-11 by Viacom International, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6953797)
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 RE56321 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.87)

Renewal claimant
Viacom International, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-04-11
Original cited
LP2181 / 1952-12-13
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6953797: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE56321, registered 1980-04-11, for original registration LP2181 published 1952-12-13.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 51198–51210.

Century-Fox Film Corp., 1952. 7 min., sd., 
color, 35mm. (Terrytoon Cartoon) 

Summary: An animated cartoon. Heckle 
and Jeckle, the talking magpies, encounter 
resistance when they attempt to sell a won- 
der vitamin pill. 

Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, 
Connie Rasinski; story, Tom Morrison; 
music, Philip A. Scheib. Technicolor. 

© Terrytoons, Inc.; 13Dec52; LP2181. 

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