Snow White

The 1916 production of 'Snow White' directed by J. Searle Dawley and starring Marguerite Clark was released on December 25, 1916. Under US copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of whether their copyright was ever renewed. This specific film is well-documented in the Library of Congress and was once thought lost until a print was rediscovered in the Netherlands in 1992 and subsequently restored by George Eastman House. Its status as a public domain work is absolute due to its 1916 publication date, which precedes the current copyright expiration cutoff for pre-1978 works.