Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley is a silent film starring Mary Pickford that was released in the United States on March 11, 1918. Under the current US copyright law (17 USC §304), all works published or registered with the US Copyright Office prior to January 1, 1928, have seen their statutory copyright terms expire. Specifically, works from 1918 were subject to a maximum term of 75 years under the 1976 Act (extended to 95 years by the 1998 term extension). This film entered the public domain on January 1, 1994, which was the end of the 75th year following its publication. Because the film was released well before the 1928 cutoff, it is definitively in the public domain in the United States regardless of whether the copyright was originally renewed in its 28th year of protection. Physical prints and digital restorations of the film are currently held by institutions such as the Library of Congress and the Mary Pickford Foundation.