Public Domain
His Trust Fulfilled
1911 · Biograph Company · Dir. D.W. Griffith
Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.
Confidence
100
— Legal Reasoning —
Why this status applies
His Trust Fulfilled is a 1911 silent short film directed by D.W. Griffith for the Biograph Company. It is the sequel to His Trust, also released in 1911.
Under United States copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of whether their copyright was ever renewed. Because this film was released in 1911, its maximum possible copyright term (even if renewed) would have expired by 1986.
The film is widely available in public domain archives, including the Library of Congress and the Internet Archive, and is frequently featured in collections of early American cinema without copyright restriction. As a pre-1928 work, its expiration is definitive.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- Library of Congress Motion Picture Copyright Descriptions Collection, Class L, 1911
- Internet Archive: His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
- IMDb: His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
- 17 U.S.C. § 304 (Copyright Act of 1976)
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