Public Reel

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

ame title by Hans Christian Andersen, Summary: A vain and gullible emperor is duped by two tailors who prepare his royal robes from invisible cloth. Credits: Director, Ted Parmelee; story, Robinson MacLean; animation, Phil Monroe, Pat Matthews, Fred Grable; music, Benjamin Lees; voices, Hans Conried

Registration LP2502 Renewed

Term began
1953-04-20
Claimant
Columbia Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE49315 filed 1980-01-28 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6946791)
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 RE49315 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-28
Original cited
LP2502 / 1953-04-20
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6946791: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE49315, registered 1980-01-28, for original registration LP2502 published 1953-04-20.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 5419–5432.

color. Based on the story of the same title 
by Hans Christian Andersen, 

Summary: A vain and gullible emperor is 
duped by two tailors who prepare his royal 
robes from invisible cloth. 

Credits: Director, Ted Parmelee; story, 
Robinson MacLean; animation, Phil Monroe, 
Pat Matthews, Fred Grable; music, Benjamin 
Lees; voices, Hans Conried. 

© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 20Aprs3 (in 
notice: 1952); LP2502. 

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