Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room

This short film was directed or photographed by G.W. 'Billy' Bitzer for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1904. Under US copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. This film falls well before that cutoff. The film is part of the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection, as Biograph frequently used the practice of depositing paper prints of their films to secure copyright protection during this era before motion pictures were explicitly protected as a separate category of work. Regardless of the original registration or renewal status, the expiration of the statutory maximum term (which would have been 75 or 95 years depending on the act applied) means it has definitively lapsed into the public domain.