Public Reel

MIGHTY MOUSE IN HOT RODS

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Terrytoon cartoon) Summary: An animated cartoon. Mighty Mouse rescues a group of teen-age "hot rod" drivers from three hungry cats. Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, Eddie Donnelly; story, Tom Morrison; music, Philip A. Scheib

Registration LP2640 Renewed

Term began
1953-03-19
Claimant
Terrytoons, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE83628 filed 1981-02-09 by Viacom International, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6981104)
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 RE83628 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Viacom International, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-02-09
Original cited
LP2640 / 1953-03-19
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6981104: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE83628, registered 1981-02-09, for original registration LP2640 published 1953-03-19.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 12150–12162.

Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film 
Corp., 1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. 
(Terrytoon cartoon) 

Summary: An animated cartoon. Mighty 
Mouse rescues a group of teen-age "hot rod" 
drivers from three hungry cats. 

Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, 
Eddie Donnelly; story, Tom Morrison; 
music, Philip A. Scheib. 

© Terrytoons, inc.; 19Mar53; LP2640. 

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