Hi As with the Disney/US Army film, Victory Through Air Power, the rights on this one are probably balled up and totally obfuscated. Some claim PD, Disney claims not.
This is out there on the net...take it with the usual grains of sodium In early 1943, the War Department first called on Walt Disney to create a series of cartoon training films. Disney had already produced a few cartoons on behalf of the wartime government, most notably “Victory Through Air Power,” but Uncle Walt’s relations with Uncle Sam were strained due to the cost overruns of these films. Disney also made two demands of the War Department: that the cartoon series consist of color animation (an added expense) and that his studio retain the ownership and licensing rights to the characters created for the series. See also the following thread on the Internet Moving Image Archive re Victory Thru Air Power: http://www.archive.org/post/33629/victory-through-air-power-pd > Dear Collective Wisdom, > > Would anyone be able to point me in the direction of further information > on the following film? > > The title is Fog. The series of films is Aerology. According to our > catalog as well as other research I've done on the title, this particular > film series was produced by Walt Disney for the U.S. Navy in WWII. Here > is our catalog record: > > http://catalog.lib.umt.edu/vwebv/search?searchArg=fog+motion+picture&searchCode=TALL&limitTo=LOCA%3DMissoula%3A+All+UM+Missoula+Campuses&recCount=20&searchType=1&page.search.search.button=Search > > I'm most interested in learning if Disney is the rights holder or if it > would be in the public domain since it was the Navy who contracted with > Disney to produce this series. If anyone can check one of the print > versions of the LoC Catalog of Copyright Entries for 1943 and 1948, that > would be helpful too; Google's scans of the Catalog haven't been too > helpful. > > Many thanks in advance. > > Best wishes, > -- > Tammy Ravas > Visual and Performing Arts Librarian and Media Coordinator > Assistant Professor > Mansfield Library > University of Montana > Ph: 406-243-4402 > E-mail: [email protected] > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve > as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 [email protected] http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
