FRANCIS COVERS THE BIG TOWN
o receives information from the police horses with whom he fraternizes. Credits: Producer, Leonard Goldstein; director, Arthur Lubin; written by Oscar Brodney; music director, Joseph Gershenson; film editor, Milton Carruth. Cast: Donald O'Connor, Yvette Dugay, Gene Lockhart, Nancy Guild, Larry Gates
Registration LP2556 Renewed
- Term began
- 1952-05-08
- Claimant
- Universal Pictures Co., inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- renewal RE50173 filed 1980-02-19 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6947649)
- Enters the public domain
- 1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 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 RE50173 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)
- Renewal claimant
- Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
- Renewal date
- 1980-02-19
- Original cited
- LP2556 / 1952-05-08
- Source
- U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6947649: record in the Copyright Public Records System
Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE50173, registered 1980-02-19, for original registration LP2556 published 1952-05-08.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 6699–6711.
friend Francis, the talking mule who re- ceives information from the police horses with whom he fraternizes. Credits: Producer, Leonard Goldstein; director, Arthur Lubin; written by Oscar Brodney; music director, Joseph Gershenson; film editor, Milton Carruth. Cast: Donald O'Connor, Yvette Dugay, Gene Lockhart, Nancy Guild, Larry Gates. © Universal Pictures Co., inc.; 8May52; LP2556,
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