Circus Days

The film 'Circus Days' is a Scrappy animated short actually released in 1934 by Columbia Pictures. Under the US Copyright Act of 1909, works released between 1928 and 1963 required a manual renewal of the copyright during the 28th year of the first term to remain protected. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) reveals no record of a renewal filing for this specific short. While many Columbia titles were systematically renewed, several shorts from this era fell into the public domain through non-renewal. The film appears in David Pierce's 'Motion Picture Copyrights and Renewals 1950–1959' as an unrenewed work. As the 28-year window for a 1934 release closed at the end of 1962 without a filing, the work entered the public domain in 1963. This is consistent with its presence in several public domain cartoon compilations and its status on the Internet Archive.