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BETTER BAIT THAN NEVER

IT THAN NEVER. Paramount Pictures Corp., 1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm, (Noveltoon cartoon) Summary: A lazy cat is outwitted by the crow that he attempts to use as fishing bait. Credits: Director, Seymour Kneitel; story, Irving Spector; animation, Dave Tendlar, Martin Taras; music, Winston Sharples

Registration LP2652 Renewed

Term began
1953-06-05
Claimant
Paramount Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE105199 filed 1981-11-12 by Harvey Films, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7002673)
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 RE105199 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Harvey Films, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-11-12
Original cited
LP2652 / 1953-06-05
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7002673: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE105199, registered 1981-11-12, for original registration LP2652 published 1953-06-05.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 2185–2197.

BETTER BAIT THAN NEVER. Paramount 
Pictures Corp., 1953. 7 min., sd., color, 
35mm, (Noveltoon cartoon) 

Summary: A lazy cat is outwitted by the 
crow that he attempts to use as fishing bait. 

Credits: Director, Seymour Kneitel; story, 
Irving Spector; animation, Dave Tendlar, 
Martin Taras; music, Winston Sharples. 

© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 5Jun53; 
LP2652. 

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