Public Reel

MUCH ADO ABOUT NUTTING

. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Looney tune cartoon) Technicolor. Summary: An animated cartoon about the attempts of a hungry squirrel to open a stubborn coconut, Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; story, Michael Maltese; animation, Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris, Ben Washam; music director, Carl Stalling

Registration MP3573 Renewed

Term began
1953-06-01
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE48102 filed 1980-01-15 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6945578)
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 RE48102 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-15
Original cited
MP3573 / 1953-06-01
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6945578: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE48102, registered 1980-01-15, for original registration MP3573 published 1953-06-01.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 13352–13365.

Cartoons, 1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. 
(Looney tune cartoon) Technicolor. 

Summary: An animated cartoon about the 
attempts of a hungry squirrel to open a stub- 
born coconut, 

Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; 
story, Michael Maltese; animation, Lloyd 
Vaughan, Ken Harris, Ben Washam; music 
director, Carl Stalling. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 1Jun53 (in notice: 
1952); MP3573. 

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