Name: With the Enemy's Help
Director: Wilfred Lucas
Released: 1912

With the Enemy's Help

1912 · Biograph Company · Dir. Wilfred Lucas

A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children praying, "Please, God, help papa find gold." Their faith gives him new hope and their prayer is efficacious, for he does find it and so stakes the claim, intending to register it at his earliest opportunity. Meanwhile "Faro Kate" and her gambler husband ride by the claim and jump it, the husband urging Kate to go to the Claim Office and register it. When the prospector returns to his "diggings" he finds the gambler in possession and in a struggle the prospector falls and is hurt. The prospector's wife, arriving at the claim, realizes she must win the race to the Claim Office.

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Why this status applies

The film 'With the Enemy's Help' is a United States production directed by Wilfred Lucas and starring Mary Pickford. It was produced by the Biograph Company and released in late 1912. Under U.S. copyright law, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain regardless of whether their copyright was renewed. Because this film was released in 1912, it is well past the threshold for expiration. The maximum possible term of protection for a work of this era was 75 years (28 years for the initial term plus a 47-year renewal under the 1976 Act), which would have expired in 1987 at the latest. The film is widely recognized as a public domain work and is archived in various institutional collections, including the Library of Congress and the Mary Pickford Foundation, which monitors the preservation status of her filmography.

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