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Color Classics: An Elephant Never Forgets (1935)

Name: An Elephant Never Forgets
Genre: Animation
Released: 1935
Duration: 7 min

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Color Classics: An Elephant Never Forgets (1935) 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).

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About Color Classics: An Elephant Never Forgets (1935)

An Elephant Never Forgets is a 1935 animated comedy short film produced by Fleischer Studios as part of the Color Classics series. The film was directed by Dave Fleischer.

In the middle of the jungle, all the animals go to school, singing along. Among these animals is an elephant who leads the chorus, a piglet who is full of mud, and a highly indifferent hippopotamus who walks so slow that a snail rapidly passes him. When they arrive in class, the elephant sits in front of a hostile gorilla who uses a washboard to hit and annoy the elephant. In the meantime, the hippopotamus simply sits outside the class and soundly sleeps. The teacher, a swan, sings another song while asking the animals various questions.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article An Elephant Never Forgets (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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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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