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Betty Boop: Honest Love and True (1938)

Name: Honest Love and True
Genre: Animation
Released: 1938
Duration: 8 min

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Betty Boop: Honest Love and True (1938) 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 Betty Boop: Honest Love and True (1938)

Honest Love and True is a 1938 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop, a Snidely Whiplash-style villain, and another character playing a Canadian Mountie.

The plotline features Betty as a poor woman who became a singer in a Klondike saloon to avoid starvation, at the behest of her "rat" employer. Her song is lyrically about longing for a man to take her away from trouble, and then a Mountie comes by and feels allured by her song. The play then goes with Betty's employer pinning the Mountie to a wall and activating a buzz saw death trap, while escaping with Betty to a remote cabin. The Mountie escapes and chases after them, captures the villain, and the play ends.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Honest Love and True (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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