Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum

The film 'Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum' was released in 1918 as part of the Bobby Bumps animated short series produced by Earl Hurd at Bray Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Under the U.S. copyright law (specifically the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998), all works published in the United States prior to January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of renewal status or notice. Because the film was published in 1918, its maximum possible copyright term (95 years) expired in 2013 at the latest; however, because it was published before the 1928 cutoff, it is definitively public domain. The Library of Congress and Internet Archive host several entries from this series, confirming their status as early silent-era works that are no longer subject to copyright protection.