Annabelle Lee

The film 'Annabelle Lee' was released in 1921 and is a US production. Under the Copyright Act of 1976 and the subsequent Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, all works published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office prior to January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. This occurs regardless of whether a copyright was registered or renewed, as the maximum possible term of 95 years has elapsed for all works from this era. According to the Library of Congress and the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, this specific adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe poem was produced by the American Vitagraph Company and directed by William J. Humphrey. Since it was published in 1921, its US copyright expired on December 31, 1996. Therefore, the film is definitively in the public domain in the United States.