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Africa Screams (1949)

Name: Africa Screams
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1949
Duration: 1 h 18 min
Cast: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Max Baer, Joe Besser, Shemp Howard

194979 minComedyStrong rights evidence

Africa Screams (1949) is a 79-minute comedy film that airs free on Starlite TV's Laugh Track (CH 3) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Charles Barton.

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About Africa Screams (1949)

Africa Screams is a 1949 American adventure comedy film starring Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Barton that parodies the safari genre. The title is a play on the title of the 1930 documentary Africa Speaks!

Diana Emerson visits the book section of Klopper's department store seeking a copy of Dark Safari by the famed explorer Cuddleford. She tells the clerk, Buzz Johnson, that she will pay $2,500 for a map that is inside the book. Buzz's friend and coworker Stanley Livington, an armchair explorer, has read the book and says that he is familiar with a map within it. Buzz brings Stanley to Diana's home to draw the map, but when he overhears Diana offer Clyde Beatty $20,000 to lead an expedition to capture a legendary giant ape, Buzz realizes that the map is worth considerably more.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Africa Screams (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Charles Barton
Cast includes: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Max Baer, Joe Besser, Shemp Howard, Frank Buck, Clyde Beatty
Country: United States

Credits from Wikidata · Wikipedia article

Airs on

Family Room - CH 10, Family TV
Laugh Track - CH 3, Comedy TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Copyright not renewed.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Copyright not renewed.
Source: Internet Archive

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