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Merrie Melodies: Falling Hare (1943)

Name: Falling Hare
Genre: Animation
Released: 1943
Duration: 8 min

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Merrie Melodies: Falling Hare (1943) 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).

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About Merrie Melodies: Falling Hare (1943)

Falling Hare is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. The cartoon features Bugs Bunny.

At a U.S. Army Air Field (which information is censored - the location, number of men and planes is censored as military secrets - and "What Men Think Of Top Sergeant" is "CENSORED!!" in much larger letters, as such language could not pass the muster of the Hays Office), Bugs Bunny, who's reading a book "Victory Thru Hare Power", laughs at the portion about gremlins, creatures that wreck planes with "diabolical sabotage". As he laughs, a gremlin appears and begins to hit the tip of the Block Buster bomb, on which Bugs is resting, with a huge mallet.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Falling Hare (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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