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Betty Boop: So Does an Automobile (1939)
Betty Boop: So Does an Automobile (1939) is a 6-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 Betty Boop: So Does an Automobile (1939)
So Does an Automobile is a 1939 Fleischer Studios animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer and starring Margie Hines as Betty Boop.
Betty operates an auto repair garage for sick and injured automobiles. Betty sings as she restores broken-down taxicabs, high-price limousines and restores a police car with sore and flat feet (tires) back to perfect condition again.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article So Does an Automobile (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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