Cubby's Picnic

Cubby's Picnic is a US animated short film produced by Van Beuren Studios and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, originally released in January 1933. As a film published between 1928 and 1963, its copyright status in the United States depended on the filing of a renewal application with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of its original term. A search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) confirms that no renewal was filed for this specific title. While many RKO-distributed properties were carefully maintained, a significant portion of the Van Beuren cartoon library fell into the public domain due to non-renewal. This film is widely documented in public domain film registries, such as the 'Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1894-1939)', and is frequently included in public domain animation collections and archives without challenge from a rights holder.