Cloak and Stagger

The film 'Cloak and Stagger' is a Popeye the Sailor theatrical cartoon produced by Famous Studios (Paramount Pictures) with a release date of December 6, 1957. According to the US copyright laws governing works published between 1928 and 1963, a work required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of its 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 record for this specific title. While Paramount Pictures was diligent in renewing many of its features, a significant number of later 'Famous Studios' Popeye shorts fell into the public domain because the studio failed to file renewals in the mid-1980s. This film is widely documented in secondary sources, such as 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain', as having an expired copyright due to non-renewal. Consequently, the film is in the public domain in the United States.