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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