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Merrie Melodies: Bars and Stripes Forever (1939)
Merrie Melodies: Bars and Stripes Forever (1939) is an 8-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: Bars and Stripes Forever (1939)
Bars and Stripes Forever is a 1939 American animated comedy short film directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton. It was released on April 8, 1939.
An isolated all-dog prison named Alcarazz is shown, where dog criminals sleep in boredom. A criminal tries to break out while the guard is distracted by a brute next to him, so the brute manipulates the guard to knock out the criminal. Warden Paws nonchalantly monitors the inmates, including one who digs a hole in an attempt to escape, but convinces Paws that it is not his work. A criminal keeps a jailbird as company. Another criminal is dragged to what seems to be an electric chair for a death sentence, only to find out that it is merely a barber's appointment.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Bars and Stripes Forever (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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