Public Reel

A PECK O' TROUBLE

Summary: An animated cartoon. An overfed, lazy cat runs afoul of a woodpecker when he tricks a kitten into catching birds for him. Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Ted Pierce; animation, Herman Cohen, Rod Scribner, Phil DeLara, Charles Mc- Kimson; music director, Carl Stalling. Technicolor

Registration MP3424 Renewed

Term began
1953-04-06
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE12246 filed 1979-01-19 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6909729)
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 RE12246 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-01-19
Original cited
MP3424 / 1953-04-06
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6909729: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE12246, registered 1979-01-19, for original registration MP3424 published 1953-04-06.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 16043–16055.

Summary: An animated cartoon. An over- 
fed, lazy cat runs afoul of a woodpecker when 
he tricks a kitten into catching birds for 
him. 

Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; 
story, Ted Pierce; animation, Herman Cohen, 
Rod Scribner, Phil DeLara, Charles Mc- 
Kimson; music director, Carl Stalling. Tech- 
nicolor. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 6Apr53 (in notice: 
1951); MP3424. 

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