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Looney Tunes: The Ducktators (1942)
Looney Tunes: The Ducktators (1942) is an 8-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).
About Looney Tunes: The Ducktators (1942)
The Ducktators is a 1942 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes propaganda animated short directed by Norman McCabe. The short was released on August 1, 1942, and satirizes events of World War II. The title is a pun on dictator.
A pair of farm ducks eagerly await the hatching of their duckling from a uniquely black-colored egg. To their surprise, a white duckling with a toothbrush moustache emerges, named Adolf Hitler (a caricature of the first Dictator), who immediately shouts "Sieg Heil!" and gives the Nazi salute. Throughout his adulthood, Hitler gives aggressive speeches in Denglisch to the other ducks and geese, with his only ally being a large Neapolitan-accented goose named Benito Mussolini (a caricature of the second Dictator).
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Ducktators (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 It is presented as a historical document.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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