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Merrie Melodies: Inki and the Minah Bird (1943)

Name: Inki and the Minah Bird
Genre: Animation
Released: 1943
Duration: 7 min

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Merrie Melodies: Inki and the Minah Bird (1943) is a 7-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Laugh Track (CH 3) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below).

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About Merrie Melodies: Inki and the Minah Bird (1943)

Inki and the Minah Bird is a 1943 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones. The short features Inki and was released on November 13, 1943.

Inki is an African young boy hunting small animals with a spear. One creature he briefly tries following is a minah bird, which walks across the scene with a hopping gait. Unlike Inki and all the other creatures in the cartoon, the minah bird shows no emotional reactions or changes in facial expression regardless of circumstances. Inki then encounters a fearsome lion. The lion then chases the boy, who briefly winds up in the lion's mouth, but escapes with the lion's teeth, revealed to be a set of dentures.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Inki and the Minah Bird (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.
Credit: Content note: This cartoon contains ethnic and racial stereotypes and/or wartime propaganda that were wrong then and are wrong now. It is presented as a historical document.
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs not individually cleared.
Source: Internet Archive

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