Public Reel

MUSCLE TUSSLE

7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Merrie melodies cartoon) Technicolor. Summary: Daffy Duck attempts to build up his muscles in order to win his girl. Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Ted Pierce; animation, Rod Scribner, Phil de Lara, Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen; music director, Carl Stalling

Registration MP3478 Renewed

Term began
1953-05-02
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE48101 filed 1980-01-15 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6945577)
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 RE48101 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-01-15
Original cited
MP3478 / 1953-05-02
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6945577: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE48101, registered 1980-01-15, for original registration MP3478 published 1953-05-02.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 13433–13445.

1953. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Merrie 
melodies cartoon) Technicolor. 

Summary: Daffy Duck attempts to build 
up his muscles in order to win his girl. 

Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; 
story, Ted Pierce; animation, Rod Scribner, 
Phil de Lara, Charles McKimson, Herman 
Cohen; music director, Carl Stalling. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 2May53 (in notice: 
1952); MP3478. 

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