Public Domain
McVeagh of the South Seas
1914 · Progressive Motion Picture Corporation · Dir. Cyril Bruce
Harvard grad Bruce McVeagh has fled San Francisco for the South Seas, where he rules as a king on a remote island. With his half-crazed first-mate 'Pearly' Gates, he keeps the natives subjugated with gin. Any who dare disobey him find brutal punishment on his dreaded torture rack. But his kingdom threatens to crash down around him when his lost love, Nancy Darrell, is shipwrecked on the island, just as the aroused natives rise up against their tormentor in an armed rebellion.
Confidence
100
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Why this status applies
McVeagh of the South Seas was released in 1914, directed by and starring Harry Carey. As an American motion picture published before January 1, 1929, it has aged out of its statutory copyright term.
Under current U.S. copyright law, all works published before 1929 have entered the public domain regardless of renewal status. There are no registration or renewal searches required for works of this era to confirm public domain status, as the maximum possible term of 95 years has expired for all works published in 1914.
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Supporting facts
- AFI Catalog of Feature Films: McVeagh of the South Seas
- Internet Movie Database (IMDb): McVeagh of the South Seas (1914)
- U.S. Copyright Office - Circular 15a: Duration of Copyright
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