His Brave Defender

This short film, produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company and directed by Wallace McCutcheon, was copyrighted in July 1900. It is a documented entry in the Library of Congress catalog of early American motion pictures. Under the U.S. Copyright Act, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of renewal status. As a 1900 production, the maximum 75-year term under the 1909 Act (as extended by the 1976 Act) would have expired in 1975 at the latest. Consequently, the film is definitively in the public domain in the United States.