English: Frame of the cartoon character Farmer Al Falfa from the 1931 animated film The Iron Man.
Renewal searches were done in both film and artwork for the years 1958 and 1959 There were no listings for this title or for Van Beuren Studios. There's no evidence that copyright continues on the film or the artwork connected with it.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.