Public Domain

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco

Name: Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
Director: Roscoe Arbuckle
Released: 1915

1915 · Keystone Film Company · Dir. Roscoe Arbuckle

Frequent comedy co-stars Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand take viewers on a tour of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Attractions shown include the U.S. Battleship "Oregon", the Australian convict ship "Success" (complete with such punishment devices as a flogging rack and a spiked Iron Maiden), the world's tallest flagpole (251 feet), the Court of Abundance, the Court of the Universe (with sunken garden) and the Tower of Jewels. Fatty and Mabel also visit Frisco's still-under-construction City Hall, accompanied by Frisco's then-Mayor James Rolph Jr. Also appearing in the film is opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink.

Confidence

100

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Why this status applies

The film 'Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco' is a American silent short starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, released in 1915. Under current United States copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain regardless of renewal status. As a 1915 production, the maximum possible term of copyright (95 years from publication) would have expired no later than the end of 2010. Therefore, the film is definitively in the public domain in the United States and is freely available for use, distribution, and adaptation.

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Supporting facts

Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries: Motion Pictures 1912-1939
AFI Catalog of Feature Films (and Shorts)
Hurst, Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain 1894-1939
17 U.S.C. § 304 (Duration of Copyright)

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