The Fatal Mallet

The Fatal Mallet is a short comedy film produced by Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, starring Charlie Chaplin, Mabel Normand, and Mack Sennett. It was originally released in the United States on June 1, 1914. According to US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of whether their copyright was ever renewed. Since this film was released in 1914, its maximum copyright protection of 75 years (under the 1976 Act) or 95 years (under the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act) has long since expired. Furthermore, the film is widely available in numerous public domain collections, such as the Internet Archive and various 'Charlie Chaplin' box sets from budget distributors like Alpha Video and Madacy Entertainment, which typically aggregate public domain material. There are no active copyright claims on the original 1914 edit of the film.