
Public Domain
Alice Chops the Suey
1925 · Winkler Pictures / Walt Disney · Dir. Walt Disney
Alice is kidnapped by Chinese Gangsters and brought to Chinatown. Her cat tries (successfully) to rescue her, but then they're hunted by a bunch of angry Chinese Triad members.
Confidence
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Why this status applies
The film 'Alice Chops the Suey' is a US motion picture originally released in August 1925 as part of the 'Alice Comedies' series produced by Walt Disney and distributed by Winkler Pictures.
Under the current US copyright framework, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. Because this work was published in 1925, its maximum possible copyright term (including renewals) expired at the end of 1999 (75 years after publication) or was simplified into the public domain by the lapse of time under the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, which only protects works from 1923-1928 if they were still under active renewal. However, the fixed cutoff now places all 1925 works in the public domain as of January 1, 2021.
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