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Color Classics: The Cobweb Hotel (1936)

Name: The Cobweb Hotel
Genre: Animation
Released: 1936
Duration: 8 min

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Color Classics: The Cobweb Hotel (1936) is an 8-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 Color Classics: The Cobweb Hotel (1936)

The Cobweb Hotel is a 1936 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer, produced by Fleischer Studios, and is one of the short films that belongs to the Color Classics film series. Animated by David Tendlar and William Sturm, the setting is said to be one of the Fleischer's desks, which the spider used to open the hoax hotel.

The cartoon starts off with a devious spider (voiced by Jack Mercer) who holds many fly captives in the rooms of "The Cobweb Hotel" and sees a newly married couple of flies booking a room into the fake hotel. After they discover the trap, the female fly gets ensnared in one of the spider's webs, and the male fly fights with the spider being a "flyweight champion", but he too becomes stuck in a web during the match. Meanwhile, his wife wriggles herself free from the web and gives freedom to all the captives, who torment the spider by flicking several sharp pen heads and firing many aspirin pills at the spider.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Cobweb Hotel (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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