Appointment in Tokyo

Appointment in Tokyo (1945) is a documentary film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in collaboration with the Army Air Forces and the U.S. Navy. The film documents the progress of the war in the Pacific from the fall of Corregidor to the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri. Under 17 U.S.C. § 105, copyright protection is not available for any work of the United States Government. As a work prepared by officers or employees of the U.S. Government (the U.S. Army Signal Corps) as part of those persons' official duties, the film was in the public domain from the moment of its creation. Although Warner Bros. Pictures handled the theatrical distribution of the film, they did not hold the copyright, and the film is frequently cited in National Archives and Library of Congress records as a government production. Furthermore, the film is widely available through the National Archives and has been uploaded to the Internet Archive and various public domain databases without any copyright challenges since its release. Because it is a federal government work, it remains in the public domain regardless of age or renewal status.