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Mr. Nobody Holme Buys a Jitney poster
Public Domain

Mr. Nobody Holme Buys a Jitney

1916 · Gaiety Enterprises / United Film Service · Dir. Leon Searle

Mr. Nobody Holme can't get his car to start because it's too cold. Perhaps he needs something really *hot* to get it going!

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Why this status applies

The film 'Mr. Nobody Holme Buys a Jitney' was released in 1916. Under the terms of the Copyright Act of 1976 and the subsequent Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, all works published or registered in the United States prior to January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of whether their copyrights were renewed. Since this film was released in 1916, it became part of the public domain in the United States at the end of its statutory term (or earlier if no registration was filed). As of January 1, 2024, all works from 1928 and earlier are legally free of copyright restrictions in the U.S. This title is part of the 'Mr. Nobody Holme' comedy series starring Ben Turpin, produced before his tenure at Mack Sennett.
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Supporting facts

  • AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  • Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • U.S. Copyright Office - Circular 15a: Duration of Copyright
  • Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain (1894-1939)

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