Public Reel

SNOW BUSINESS

Looney tune cartoon) Summary: The hungry cat Sylvester has designs on Tweety Bird when they are snowbound without food in a mountain cabin. Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, Warren Foster; animation, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin; music director, Carl Stalling. Technicolor

Registration MP3172 Renewed

Term began
1953-01-02
Claimant
The Vitaphone Corp
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE12241 filed 1979-01-19 by Warner Brothers, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6909724)
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 RE12241 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Warner Brothers, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-01-19
Original cited
MP3172 / 1953-01-02
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6909724: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE12241, registered 1979-01-19, for original registration MP3172 published 1953-01-02.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 18892–18905.

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

Summary: The hungry cat Sylvester has 
designs on Tweety Bird when they are snow- 
bound without food in a mountain cabin. 

Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, 
Warren Foster; animation, Virgil Ross, 
Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin; 
music director, Carl Stalling. Technicolor. 

© The Vitaphone Corp.; 2Jan53 (in notice: 
1951); MP3172. 

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