A Dizzy Day

The film 'A Dizzy Day' is an animated short produced by Van Beuren Studios as part of the 'Little King' series and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1933. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office in the 28th year of their first term to maintain copyright protection beyond the initial period. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal registration for this specific title. While RKO and other major distributors typically renewed their feature-length portfolios, many short subjects—particularly those from the struggling Van Beuren unit—fell into the public domain through non-renewal. Because the film was published in 1933 and the 28-year window for renewal closed in 1961 without a filing record found in primary renewal databases (Stanford/CCE) or secondary industry references like the Film Superlist (Hurst/Baer), the film is considered to be in the public domain in the United States. It is widely circulated on public domain compilation sets and archive.org without legal challenge.