Fancy Plants

Fancy Plants is a theatrical animated short produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and released by Columbia Pictures. While the user provided 1967 as a hint, the only distinct film by this title is the 1954 UPA short directed by Robert Cannon. Under the 1909 Copyright Act, works published between 1928 and 1963 required a renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term to maintain protection. According to the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) and the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, the original registration for Fancy Plants was filed on December 1, 1954 (Registration No. MP5376). A search of the renewal records (which would have been due in 1982) shows no renewal entry for this title. While many UPA/Columbia cartoons were renewed, this specific entry was missed, causing it to fall into the public domain upon the expiration of its initial 28-year term in 1982. The film is listed as public domain in Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1950–1959).