Public Domain
The House of Hate
1918 · Astra Film Corp. / Pathe Exchange · Dir. Arthur C. Miller
A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...
Confidence
100
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Why this status applies
The House of Hate is a silent-era adventure serial consisting of 20 episodes, released by Pathe Exchange starting in March 1918. Starring Pearl White and Antonio Moreno, it is a quintessential example of the early American film serial.
Under current US copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain. Because this film was published in 1918, its maximum 75-year copyright term (under the laws active at the time of its 1946 expiration) or any potential extensions under the 1976 Act have long since lapsed. The film transitioned into the public domain on January 1, 1994, at the latest.
— Cited Sources —
Supporting facts
- https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig3121libr
- https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HouseOfHate1918.html
- AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The House of Hate (1918)
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