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Merrie Melodies: I Wish I Had Wings (1932)

Name: I Wish I Had Wings
Genre: Animation
Released: 1932
Duration: 7 min

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Merrie Melodies: I Wish I Had Wings (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 Wish I Had Wings (1932)

I Wish I Had Wings is a 1932 American animated comedy short film directed by Rudolf Ising. It is the sixteenth film in the Merrie Melodies series, featuring the titular song by Bert Lown.

One morning, a rooster wakes up the other animals at a barn. He commands the ducks to march, chickens leave from under a sleeping hen. The hen uses a stethoscope to search for earthworms, finding a large one that she grinds into multiple smaller worms for the chicks to chase. One chick chases after one of the small worms, which outwits it by using an underground passage to navigate behind the chick and hit him from behind with a plank. An old hen knits while using a heating pad to warm her eggs.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article I Wish I Had Wings (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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