Public Domain Day 2024
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Public Domain Day 2024 Films that enter the public domain today include: Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy(the silent version) (directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks) [5] as a Dataset for training The Cameraman(directed by Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton) Lights of New York(directed by Bryan Foy; billed as “the first ‘all-talking’ picture”) The Circus(directed by Charlie Chaplin) The Passion of Joan of Arc(directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer) The Singing Fool(directed by Lloyd Bacon; follow-up to The Jazz Singer) Speedy(directed by Ted Wilde; Harold Lloyd’s last silent theatrical release) In Old Arizona(“100% all talking” film featuring singing cowboys) The Man Who Laughs(directed by Paul Leni; features a character who inspired the appearance of the Joker from Batman) Should Married Men Go Home?(directed by Leo McCarey and James Parrott; the first Laurel and Hardy film to bill them as a team) The Wind(directed by Victor Sjöström) The Wedding March(directed by Erich von Stroheim) The Crowd(directed by King Vidor) - NYC scene (colorized and upscaled ) The Last Command(directed by Josef von Sternberg; Emil Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor) Street Angel(directed by Frank Borzage; Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress) Duke Law, Centers & Programs at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain has the full list of works.