Airy Fairy Lillian Tries On Her New Corsets

The film 'Airy Fairy Lillian Tries On Her New Corsets' was produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1905. Under US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of renewal status. As a 1905 production, this film's term of protection has expired. The film was famously photographed by G.W. 'Billy' Bitzer on the roof of the Biograph studio in New York. Like many Biograph films of this era, it was originally registered for copyright as a paper print (a sequence of positive photographic prints on paper) to ensure protection before motion pictures were explicitly added as a category to the Copyright Act in 1912. These registrations have long since lapsed into the public domain.