Public Domain
Alice Rattled by Rats
1925 · Walt Disney / Winkler Pictures · Dir. Walt Disney
While Alice is away, her cat is guarding the house. He chases one pesky rat inside the house, and shoots a hole in the floor, which he falls through, into a vat of home-brew. With the cat thus away, the rats play, at first dancing and singing, and later playing in the bathtub. The cat eventually sobers up (after he lands in a cactus), and tries to blow up the rats (and house!) with a bomb, but the rats plant the bomb on the cat, who blows up himself, Alice, and several nearby trees.
Confidence
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Why this status applies
Under US copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. 'Alice Rattled by Rats' is a part of the 'Alice Comedies' series produced by Walt Disney. It was originally completed in late 1924 and released on January 15, 1925, by Winkler Pictures.
Because the film was published in 1925, its maximum 75-year copyright term (under the laws in effect at the time of its expiration) or subsequent extensions would have ended by the time the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act took effect for 1923+ works, but more importantly, the hard 'pre-1928' rule applies. All works from 1925 entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2021, at the latest.
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