Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki - I.W.W. Rat

The film 'Uncle Sam and the Bolsheviki - I.W.W. Rat' is a short animated propaganda film produced in 1919 by the Ford Motor Company as part of the 'Ford Educational Weekly' series (Issue No. 165). The film was created during the First Red Scare to criticize the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) and Bolshevik influence in the United States. Under current U.S. copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain. Because this film was published and widely distributed in 1919, its statutory copyright term has expired. No renewal or registration status after 1929 could extend this protection, as the maximum possible term for works of this era was 95 years from publication, all of which lapsed by 2015 at the latest. The film is currently held in various archives, including the National Archives (NARA) and the Library of Congress, and is frequently cited in historical studies of American anti-radical propaganda. Its status as public domain is definitive due to its age. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.