A Little Soap and Water

A Little Soap and Water is an American animated short film released on February 15, 1935, part of the 'Little King' series produced by Van Beuren Studios and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Under the Copyright Act of 1909, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of their first copyright term to remain protected. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the relevant volumes of the Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no renewal record for this title. While the original registration was likely filed under the series name or by RKO, the failure to renew the specific copyright for this cartoon means it lapsed into the public domain in 1963. This is consistent with the status of most Van Beuren cartoons from this era, which are widely distributed by public domain specialists and available on the Internet Archive without restriction.