His Wonderful Chance

The film 'His Wonderful Chance' was released in the United States in 1920. Under the current US copyright laws (specifically the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act), all works published or registered before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain regardless of whether they were renewed. At the time of its release, the film was produced by Selznick Pictures and directed by George Archainbaud, starring Eugene O'Brien and Martha Mansfield. Because it was published over 95 years ago (pre-1929), its statutory copyright protection has expired by operation of law. No further search of renewal records is necessary to confirm its public domain status as the term of protection is calculated as a fixed block rather than being dependent on individual renewals for this specific era.