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Merrie Melodies: A Tale of Two Kitties (1942)
Merrie Melodies: A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) is a 7-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Saturday Morning (CH 7) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below).
About Merrie Melodies: A Tale of Two Kitties (1942)
A Tale of Two Kitties is a 1942 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. It was released on November 21, 1942.
Two cats, Babbit and Catstello, are looking for food to alleviate their hunger. Babbit gets a ladder when they see a bird (Tweety; then-called Orson) on top of a frail tree. Catstello is at first reluctant, but manages to go up the ladder. As Babbit demands his partner to get the bird, Catstello experiences "heightrophobia" and falls down the ladder after failing to catch Orson from his nest. Babbit then puts Catstello in the following attempts to catch the bird to only end in vain: First he tries to launch Catstello in the air with the use of jack-in-the-box springs.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article A Tale of Two Kitties (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).
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- Saturday Morning - CH 7, Cartoon TV
Rights & source
- Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
- Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia "List of animated films in the public domain in the United States" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States), which cites Film Superlist / copyright renewal records (not renewed). Character names/designs may remain trademarks; no character art used in site branding.
- Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs not individually cleared.
- Source: Internet Archive
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