Public Reel

HOW TO BE A DETECTIVE

tures, 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Goofy cartoon) Technicolor. Summary: An animated cartoon about Goofy's adventures as a private investigator. Credits: Director, Jack Kinney; story, Dick Kinney, Brice Mack; animation, Hugh Fraser, John Sibley, Ed Aardal, George Nicholas; music, Joseph S. Dubin

Registration LP2552 Renewed

Term began
1952-05-27
Claimant
Walt Disney Productions
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE64023 filed 1980-07-29 by Walt Disney Productions (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6961499)
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 RE64023 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Walt Disney Productions (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-07-29
Original cited
LP2552 / 1952-05-27
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6961499: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE64023, registered 1980-07-29, for original registration LP2552 published 1952-05-27.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 8550–8562.

tures, 1952. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. 
(Goofy cartoon) Technicolor. 

Summary: An animated cartoon about 
Goofy's adventures as a private investigator. 

Credits: Director, Jack Kinney; story, 
Dick Kinney, Brice Mack; animation, Hugh 
Fraser, John Sibley, Ed Aardal, George 
Nicholas; music, Joseph S. Dubin. 

© Walt Disney Productions; 27May52; 
LP2552. 

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