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Popeye the Sailor: Me Musical Nephews (1942)
Popeye the Sailor: Me Musical Nephews (1942) 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).
About Popeye the Sailor: Me Musical Nephews (1942)
Me Musical Nephews is a 1942 one-reel animated cartoon directed by Seymour Kneitel and animated by Tom Johnson and George Germanetti. Jack Mercer and Jack Ward wrote the script.
One night, the nephews are practicing playing their music while Popeye is continually falling asleep. He tells them to get ready for bed so he can tell them a story. The nephews are unhappy with the short story but are sent to bed anyway. The nephews are not so tired and eventually start playing music with various objects (such as mattress springs, suspenders, medicine bottles, etc.), and Popeye eventually hears the racket and destroys the radio trying to find what's causing the noise. He soon finds out it is coming from the nephews and tries to catch them in the act.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Me Musical Nephews (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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