10,000 Kids and a Cop

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| director = Charles Barton

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| narrator = James Stewart
Brenda Joyce

| starring = Bud Abbott
Lou Costello

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| distributor = Universal Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1948|10}}

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| country = United States

| language = English

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10,000 Kids and a Cop is a 1948 documentary short directed by Charles Barton about the philanthropic work of the Lou Costello Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles, California, named after the comedian's son who had died in 1943 aged 1, and it was originally distributed for free to U.S. film exhibitors.{{cite news | author =Hedda Hopper | title =Looking at Hollywood | publisher =Chicago Tribune | date =September 22, 1948 | url =https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/499874732.html?dids=499874732:499874732&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Sep+22%2C+1948&author=Hedda+Hopper&pub=Chicago+Daily+Tribune&desc=Looking+at+Hollywood&pqatl=google | accessdate =2009-04-16 | archive-date =2012-10-20 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20121020041409/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/499874732.html?dids=499874732:499874732&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Sep+22,+1948&author=Hedda+Hopper&pub=Chicago+Daily+Tribune&desc=Looking+at+Hollywood&pqatl=google | url-status =dead }}