Antique Antics

Antique Antics is a 1933 animated short film produced by Van Beuren Studios and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures as part of the 'Aesop's Fables' series. 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 protection for a second term. 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 many Van Beuren cartoons were later syndicated for television by distributors like Commonwealth Pictures and Official Films, the vast majority of the Van Beuren library fell into the public domain due to a failure to renew the original copyrights in the early 1960s. This film is widely available on public domain compilation sets and archive.org without challenge from any rights holder.