The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia:
List of Shorts in the Public Domain

When a film fails to get copyrighted, it falls into the public domain. So was the case with Universal among other animation studios. It is because of this copyright negligence that a handful of public domain Walter Lantz titles are available on cheap DVDs and VHS cassettes from small home video distributors. It would be impossible to list all of these compilations, so below is a listing of all the Lantz cartoons that have fallen into the public domain. Most of the discs and tapes that feature these shorts can be easily found at your local K-Mart or Walgreens. Usually, the cartoons on these collections are mastered from fair to poor 16mm film prints and most of the public domain VHS tapes are recorded in EP video speed.

Information courtesy of "Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain, 1894-1939," "Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain, 1940-1949," and "Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain, 1950-1959" all by Walter E. Hurst.

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Bandmaster, The [1931]
Beach Combers
Boy Meets Dog
Enemy Bacteria
House of Magic
Making Good
Mechanical Man
Pantry Panic
Plumber, The
Quail Hunt, The
Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
Silly Superstition
Take Heed Mr. Tojo

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The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia:List of Shorts in the Public Domain

The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia:
List of Shorts in the Public Domain