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Color Classics: The Playful Polar Bears (1938)

Name: The Playful Polar Bears
Genre: Animation
Released: 1938
Duration: 8 min

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Color Classics: The Playful Polar Bears (1938) 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 Playful Polar Bears (1938)

The Playful Polar Bears is an animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures on October 28, 1938. It is part of the Color Classics series.

A polar bear father has to protect one of his children when a group of hunters puts their home in danger.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Playful Polar Bears (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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