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Universal Pictures: Boy Meets Dog! (1938)
Universal Pictures: Boy Meets Dog! (1938) is a 10-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 Universal Pictures: Boy Meets Dog! (1938)
Boy Meets Dog! is an American animated musical commercial short made in 1938 for Ipana Toothpaste. It was produced by Walter Lantz as a Technicolor cartoon for theatrical release by Universal Pictures.
A boy named Bobby, gets a lesson in school about how to properly massage his gums to take care of his teeth. After class is dismissed, Bobby is offered by one of his friends in to an ice cream shop to have a sundae and go fishing. Bobby turns it down because his extremely strict, cold-hearted, authoritative, gruff, and very mean father (Billy Bletcher) wouldn't let him. On the way home, Bobby finds a beagle and takes him home. They sneak into the house where Bobby cleans him up in order to convince his father to keep him.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Boy Meets Dog! (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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