Public Domain
Where Are My Children?
1916 · Universal Film Manufacturing Company · Dir. Lois Weber
Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.
Confidence
100
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Why this status applies
The film 'Where Are My Children?', directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, was originally released in the United States on April 16, 1916. Under current United States copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of renewal status. As a 1916 production, this film's statutory copyright protection expired 75 years after its publication (under the 1976 Act) or was further impacted by the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act, but the absolute cutoff for public domain status for all works is currently anything prior to 1929. Therefore, this work is definitively in the public domain in the U.S. due to its age.
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Supporting facts
- AFI Catalog of Feature Films (1911-1920)
- Library of Congress (National Film Registry)
- Wikipedia: Where Are My Children?
- IMDb: Where Are My Children? (1916)
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