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OPERATION SAWDUST

6 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Woody Woodpecker Walter Lantz cartune) A Universal-International picture. Technicolor. Summary: After being mistreated, Woody Woodpecker decides to punish Buzz, the lumberjack. Credits: Story, Homer Brighton; animation, La Verne Harding, Ray Abrams; music, Clarence Wheeler

Registration MP3640 Renewed

Term began
1953-06-26
Claimant
Universal International
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE107532 filed 1981-12-07 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7005006)
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 RE107532 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-12-07
Original cited
MP3640 / 1953-06-26
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7005006: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE107532, registered 1981-12-07, for original registration MP3640 published 1953-06-26.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 15140–15154.

Co., 1953. 6 min., sd., color, 35mm. 
(Woody Woodpecker Walter Lantz cartune) 
A Universal-International picture. Techni- 
color. 

Summary: After being mistreated, Woody 
Woodpecker decides to punish Buzz, the 
lumberjack. 

Credits: Story, Homer Brighton; anima- 
tion, La Verne Harding, Ray Abrams; music, 
Clarence Wheeler. 

© Universal International; 26Jun53; 
MP3640. 

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