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Charlie's White Elephant

1916 · International Film Service · Dir. John C. Terry

A cartoon based on Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp", with Chaplin himself supplying some gags.

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Why this status applies

Charlie's White Elephant (1916) is a US animated short directed by Gregory La Cava, featuring the character 'Charlie' (a caricature of Charlie Chaplin) and released as part of the Phables series by International Film Service. Under US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain regardless of their renewal status. As this film was produced and released in 1916, its statutory copyright term has expired. Any original copyright protections that may have existed ended at the latest on December 31, 1991 (75 years after publication, per the 1976 Act's provisions for pre-1922 works).
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