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BOOTY AND THE BEAST

BOOTY AND THE BEAST. Columbia Pictures Corp., 1953. 16 min., sd., bew, 35mm. Summary: A slapstick comedy about the Three Stooges who unwittingly help a burglar to break into a mansion. Credits: Producer and director, Jules White; screenplay, Jack White; story, Felix Adler; film editor, Edwin Bryant

Registration LP2434 Renewed

Term began
1953-03-05
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE79825 filed 1981-01-15 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6977301)
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 RE79825 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-01-15
Original cited
LP2434 / 1953-03-05
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6977301: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE79825, registered 1981-01-15, for original registration LP2434 published 1953-03-05.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 2581–2593.

BOOTY AND THE BEAST. Columbia Pic- 
tures Corp., 1953. 16 min., sd., bew, 35mm. 

Summary: A slapstick comedy about the 
Three Stooges who unwittingly help a burglar 
to break into a mansion. 

Credits: Producer and director, Jules 
White; screenplay, Jack White; story, Felix 
Adler; film editor, Edwin Bryant. 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 5Mar53; 
LP2434. 

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