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Merrie Melodies: I Love a Parade (1932)

Name: I Love a Parade
Genre: Animation
Released: 1932
Duration: 7 min

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Merrie Melodies: I Love a Parade (1932) 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 Merrie Melodies: I Love a Parade (1932)

I Love a Parade is a 1932 American animated comedy short film directed by Rudolf Ising. It is the fourteenth film in the Merrie Melodies series, featuring the titular song by Harold Arlen, which was an unused musical number for the 1931 film Manhattan Parade.

At a circus, a clown does tricks while a marching band consisting of animals marches to the beat of the music. A lion accidentally wrecks his drum, which he replaces by a volunteering dog which eats the drum and is used as a drumhead, while disposing of a Mickey Mouse-like mouse which held the drum upright. The crowd, enjoying the clown's tricks, sings the titular song. A dog rides a truck holding a circus lion, only to enter a small pipe and be locked in the truck while the lion gleefully drives it. A janitor is at the end of the parade, stopping the singing to a halt by angrily expressing his annoyance.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article I Love a Parade (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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