The cultural works becoming public domain in 2026, from Betty Boop to Nancy Drew

[John1956PA]

9. For a while, the popularity of Max Fleischer's cartoons rivaled that of Walt Disney's.

When I was young, did not watch Fleischer's Betty Boop cartoons. I did watch television airings of Fleischer Studio's movie "Hoppity Goes to Town" (1941) which was originally titled "Mr. Bug Goes to Town." The film was designed, in part, as an allegory of socio-economic divide. The theatric screening of the film was held on December 4, 1941. The screening audience was indifferent. The U.S. entry into World War II in the following week ruined the plan for the movie to be a Christmas release.