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Universal Pictures: Pantry Panic (1941)

Name: Pantry Panic
Genre: Animation
Released: 1941
Duration: 7 min

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Universal Pictures: Pantry Panic (1941) 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 Universal Pictures: Pantry Panic (1941)

Pantry Panic is the third animated cartoon short in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on November 24, 1941, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.

The local groundhog warns a community of birds that a winter storm is imminent; the birds all quickly head south before it arrives, except Woody, who wants to continue swimming. Winter suddenly arrives, freezing the swimming hole solid while Woody is mid-dive ("must be hard water"); Woody is initially unfazed, as he has stockpiled much food to wait the winter out—until a funnel cloud breaks down Woody's door and sucks away all of his food. Two weeks later, Woody is literally staring starvation, personified as something vaguely resembling the Grim Reaper, in the face.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Pantry Panic (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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