Public Domain
A Holiday Pageant at Home
1901 · Edison Manufacturing Co.
A few days before the Christmas holiday, a large family decides to put on a home-made play as part of their holiday together. The mother writes the play, and the children practice it. When they are ready, they enact first a prologue and then the play.
Confidence
100
— Legal Reasoning —
Why this status applies
The film 'A Holiday Pageant at Home' is a short silent film produced by Thomas Edison's Edison Manufacturing Company. It was released in December 1901 (registration number H11815).
Under US copyright law, any work published before January 1, 1928, is definitively in the public domain. This applies regardless of whether the copyright was originally registered or subsequently renewed, as the maximum possible term of protection (95 years from publication) for works of this era has expired as of January 1, 1997.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- Library of Congress: Motion Pictures From the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection 1894-1912
- Kemp R. Niver, Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress (1985)
- IMDb: A Holiday Pageant at Home (1901)
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