Public Domain
The Fall of Babylon
1919 · Wark Producing Corporation · Dir. D.W. Griffith
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.
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Why this status applies
The Fall of Babylon (1919) is a US-produced feature film directed by D.W. Griffith. It was created by editing together the 'Babylonian story' sequences from Griffith's 1916 epic Intolerance with additional footage filmed to expand the narrative into a standalone feature.
Under current US copyright law, all works published before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. This film was released in 1919, well before the 1928 cutoff. Therefore, the copyright has expired regardless of whether it was originally registered or renewed.
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