My Old Kentucky Home (1926)
My Old Kentucky Home is a short animation film originally released on March 13, 1926, by Max and Dave Fleischer of Fleischer Studios as one of the Song Car-Tunes series. The series, between May 1924 and September 1926, eventually totaled 36 films, of which 19 were made with sound. This cartoon features the original lyrics of "My Old Kentucky Home" (1853) by Stephen Foster, and was recorded in the Lee de Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system.
Synopsis adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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What year is My Old Kentucky Home from?
My Old Kentucky Home dates from 1926.
Is My Old Kentucky Home in the public domain?
This copy is served from the Internet Archive, where it is held as public domain material. Theatrical shorts lapsed into the public domain in large numbers, which is why so much classic animation can be streamed freely and legally.