A Car-Tune Portrait

A Car-Tune Portrait is a Color Classic animated short produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was originally registered for copyright on June 25, 1937, under registration number MP7562. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works registered between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first term to maintain protection. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal record for this specific title. While many Paramount-distributed Fleischer cartoons (such as Popeye or Betty Boop) were renewed, a significant number of the Color Classic and Screen Songs series were allowed to lapse into the public domain. Because no renewal was filed within the statutory window (1964-1965), the copyright expired at the end of its first 28-year term. The film's public domain status is widely recognized in animation history databases and it has been frequently included in various public domain cartoon compilations and by distributors such as Thunderbean Animation and various archive.org collections without legal challenge.