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cartune) A Universal-International picture. Summary: Woody Woodpecker, playing the role of a street cleaner, disrupts a circus performance when he takes refuge in the tent to elude an irate policeman. Credits: Animation, Ray Abrams, La Verne Harding, Paul Smith; music, Clarence Wheeler. Technicolor

Registration MP3139 Renewed

Term began
1953-01-02
Claimant
Universal International
Class
MP — published motion picture other than a photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE107528 filed 1981-12-07 by Universal City Studios, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 7005002)
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 RE107528 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Universal City Studios, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1981-12-07
Original cited
MP3139 / 1953-01-02
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 7005002: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE107528, registered 1981-12-07, for original registration MP3139 published 1953-01-02.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 24084–24096.

Woodpecker Walter Lantz cartune) A Uni- 
versal-International picture. 

Summary: Woody Woodpecker, playing the 
role of a street cleaner, disrupts a circus 
performance when he takes refuge in the 
tent to elude an irate policeman. 

Credits: Animation, Ray Abrams, La Verne 
Harding, Paul Smith; music, Clarence 
Wheeler. Technicolor. 

© Universal International; 2Jan53; MP3139. 

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