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Color Classics: The Song of the Birds (1935)

Name: The Song of the Birds
Genre: Animation
Released: 1935
Duration: 8 min

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Color Classics: The Song of the Birds (1935) 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 Song of the Birds (1935)

The Song of the Birds is a 1935 Color Classics cartoon. It concerns a destructive little boy with an air rifle who shoots a baby bird and is mortified when the bird's parents, and all the other birds, go into mourning.

A flock of birds is teaching their young chicks to fly. The sun is shining, and all the birds are cheerfully singing. Meanwhile, a boy is having fun with an air rifle, shooting at everything in the house and destroying many of the items. He goes into the garden and shoots at the nest that the birds have barely saved. Next, he shoots a chick out of the sky, only to realize the gravity of what he has done.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Song of the Birds (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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