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Color Classics: The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939)

Name: The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Genre: Animation
Released: 1939
Duration: 7 min

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Color Classics: The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939) 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 Color Classics: The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939)

The Fresh Vegetable Mystery is a 1939 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Fleischer Studios, as part of the Color Classics film series. It was released on September 29, 1939.

It's late at night in the kitchen, and all the vegetables are asleep when a cloaked figure arrives and kidnaps Mother Carrot and her kids. A cop, portrayed by a Potato, goes off investigate and finds the culprit. The cloaked figure eventually sneaks into a beer hall (represented as a crate of root beer), and the potato cop calls for backup and raids the bar, dragging out all the fruits and vegetables in the hall to be interrogated.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (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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