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DINKY IN THE ORPHAN EGG

ORPHAN EGG. Terrytoons. Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Terrytoon cartoon) Summary: The duck Dinky discovers an abandoned egg and hatches a baby bird. Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, Eddie Donnelly; story, Tom Morrison; music, Philip A. Scheib

Registration LP2654 Renewed

Term began
1953-04-24
Claimant
Terrytoons, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE83630 filed 1981-02-09 by Viacom International, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6981106)
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 RE83630 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Viacom International, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-02-09
Original cited
LP2654 / 1953-04-24
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6981106: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE83630, registered 1981-02-09, for original registration LP2654 published 1953-04-24.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 4950–4962.

DINKY IN THE ORPHAN EGG. Terrytoons. 
Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
Corp., 1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. 
(Terrytoon cartoon) 

Summary: The duck Dinky discovers an 
abandoned egg and hatches a baby bird. 

Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, 
Eddie Donnelly; story, Tom Morrison; music, 
Philip A. Scheib. 

© Terrytoons, inc.; 24Apr53; LP2654. 

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