Public Reel

LP2154, THE TURN-TALE WOLF

in., sd., color, 35mm, (Merrie Melodies Cartoon) Summary: The Big Bad Wolf tells his version of the story of the Three Little Pigs. Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Tedd Pierce; animation, Phil DeLara, Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rod Scribner; music director, Carl Stalling. Technicolor

Registration MP2515 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 RE12227 filed 1979-01-19 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6909710)
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 RE12227 (link: number+date, title similarity 0.71)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-01-19
Original cited
MP2515 / 1952-07-21
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6909710: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE12227, registered 1979-01-19, for original registration MP2515 published 1952-07-21.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 52151–52164.

Cartoons, 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm, 
(Merrie Melodies Cartoon) 

Summary: The Big Bad Wolf tells his 
version of the story of the Three Little Pigs. 

Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; 
story, Tedd Pierce; animation, Phil DeLara, 
Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rod 
Scribner; music director, Carl Stalling. 
Technicolor. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 21Jul52 (in notice: 
1951); MP2515. 

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