Public Reel

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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