Public Reel

DUCK AMUCK

mm. (Merrie melodies cartoon) Summary: Daffy Duck encounters difficulties with scenery, music, and sound effects while acting in a motion picture. Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; story, Michael Maltese; animation, Ken Harris, Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan; music director, Carl Stalling. Technicolor

Registration MP3316 Renewed

Term began
1953-03-02
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE12245 filed 1979-01-19 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6909728)
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 RE12245 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-01-19
Original cited
MP3316 / 1953-03-02
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6909728: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE12245, registered 1979-01-19, for original registration MP3316 published 1953-03-02.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 5284–5297.

1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Merrie 
melodies cartoon) 

Summary: Daffy Duck encounters difficul- 
ties with scenery, music, and sound effects 
while acting in a motion picture. 

Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; 
story, Michael Maltese; animation, Ken 
Harris, Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan; music 
director, Carl Stalling. Technicolor. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 2Mar53 (in notice: 
1951); MP3316. 

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