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Legal proceedings regarding Charles De Haven's suit against Chaplin and United Artists for alleged plagiarism of Hynkel's baloon-dance sequence. De Haven claims that the same situation appears in his dramatic composition 'Mulligan & Mulligan from the West' from "Follies of 1776", that he wrote with Fred Nice and is known by the title "Comedy Balloon Dance", copyright registered on December 30 1920.

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Title from indication on file folder. - Partly numbered leaves, filed with metal staples. - Attached is a payment receipt and 4 photocopies of the dramatic composition Mulligan & Mulligan from the West as appeared in "Follies of 1776".
1 dossier (31 p.) ; 37 cm. + 5 p.
ECCI00312813, CH088