# Boy Meets Dog

Animated short promoting Bristol-Myers’s Ipana toothpaste. The cartoon uses characters from Gene Byrne’s comic strip, Reg’lar Fellers . Note: Produced in Technicolor, Boy Meets Dog was said to have been one of the most expensive commercials ever made for theatrical distribution as an “added attraction.” For more about Caravel Films, see Arthur Edwin Krows, “Motion Pictures—Not for Theatres,” Educational Screen 18 (Dec. 1939): 363.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1938
- By: Caravel Films
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/boy-meets-dog-1938)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.