Public Reel

ANT PASTED

chnicolor. Summary: An animated cartoon. A colony of ants declares war on Elmer Fudd after he disturbs the insects with his fourth of July firecrackers. Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, Warren Foster; animation, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin; music director, Carl Stalling

Registration MP3576 Renewed

Term began
1953-06-01
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE48104 filed 1980-01-15 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6945580)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2049 (95 years from the 1953 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 RE48104 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-15
Original cited
MP3576 / 1953-06-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6945580: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE48104, registered 1980-01-15, for original registration MP3576 published 1953-06-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 1434–1447.

cartoon) Technicolor. 

Summary: An animated cartoon. A colony 
of ants declares war on Elmer Fudd after he 
disturbs the insects with his fourth of July 
firecrackers. 

Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, 
Warren Foster; animation, Virgil Ross, 
Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin; 
music director, Carl Stalling. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 1Jun53 (in notice: 
1952); MP3576. 

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