Jayvee Enaguas (HarvettFox96) reviewed the copyright of the animated short film that includes most materials and elements on August 28 and 30, 2021.
A copyright notice that reads "Copyright MCMXXXVII by The Vitaphone Corp." on the opening card sequence. The result found an entry of it in the Blue Ribbon reissue print on the initial registration list in 1949 nor the renewal registration list between 1964 (1, 2) and 1965 (1, 2) on the copyright catalogues.
It entered the public domain in 1966 after the United Artists (UA) (a successor of the Associated Artists Productions (AAP) for pre-1948 titles) did not renew the original copyright Vitaphone within the required 28-year period.
The actual Blue Ribbon reissue print altered the opening, title, and closing card sequences and scrapped away from an original print, which is presumably lost or missing nowadays due to wiping.
The animated short film is widely available in both physical and digital formats.
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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart and the copyright renewal logs. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.