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Looks interesting!

Public Domain has great villains they need to revive in 2025. 😅

Great video

He kinda looks like American crusader

I'm tryna write a true western, but it just so happens my main character has a half brother who is a vampire from my other series of stories...I haven't published yet, but one day soon

I love THE GREAT GABBO! I came home drunk one night at 4:00 in the morning and it was just starting on TV. I watched it and was enthralled. I soon after bought it on DVD. As you mentioned, talkies were just creeping into the scene, so the filmmakers obviously thought that inserting unrelated Vaudeville performances would boost the sound enticement for audiences.

What's crazy is that even works by George Orwell like _Animal Farm_ and _1984_ have been in the Canadian public domain since 2001, but won't enter the US public domain until 2041/2045.

If people want to reduce copyright terms again, they're gonna have to vote for a Supreme Court to overturn it.

Most people generally don't care about works that are from more than 50 years ago, so none of this is really a big deal.

All of these should've been in the public domain decades ago. The 95 year timeframe is ridiculous.

I just realized that any musicians and singers out there can do their own versions of "The Best of the 20s."

The Entire Oyl family was in Popeye (1980) Starring Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley, and Paul J. Smith. Wasn't Hell's Bells a Fleischer Brothers Short starring Betty Boop? Oh, Okay I found the one you speak of. But I'm sure Betty's 1934 version will be soon. Just give it 5 Years. now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna watch The Skeleton Dance.

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On Tintin, the situation also gets more complicated because there is a foundation acting as its right holder and which VERY aggressively acts against even small fans. But there is a certain document which proofs that they cannot be the true rights holders as Herge sold the rights to a third person already (who pretty much does not care.) One certain court case was won with that document but the situation stayed calm afterwards. Nobody tried to challenge them otherwise.

This "except for belgium" is wrong. In international copyright, there is the idea of the rule of the shorter term. (Basically if its free in the US and not in Belgium, you can use it in the US. If the US would have had a longer copyright term than Belgium, then, the term limit of Belgium would apply".) But in the EU, copyright terms have been harmonised by the EU and due to nobody in the US is involved in it, if you are from an EU country, the belgian term limit applies to you. Not the one from the US.

"Some of this stuff exists now, but..." but what? Care to re-render and re-upload? If not, please at least pin a comment.

I'm in my late 20s and I grew up watching Fleischer Popeye cartoons and reading the comics. Some of those comics' political satire is even funnier as an adult and has aged very well.

That makes 3 Mickey Mouse shorts in my personal library: Steamboat Willie, Plane Crazy, and The Karnival kid. I also didn't download any of them, I actually bought them on DVD.

Finding his voice is public domain for years.

Where did you get that copy of jungle rhythm?

List of terrible upcoming horror movies

So when is Betty Boop going to be public domain?

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Scott was great as scrooge, i also like the different portrayal on ghost of christmas present, a much more mean, and harsher version, compared to the rest.

I'm not surprised that Buck Rogers made the list since the last mainstream project that utilized the character was the 1979 Gil Gerard TV series and to a lesser extent, a pen-and-paper role-playing game from the makers of Dungeons & Dragons which is set in a ret-conned continuity of the original novel Armageddon 2419. Also, since nobody gave two hoots about the character of Bosko, the name that launched Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes brand (other than the racial undertones).....

You don’t know how blessed I am that all of The Disney Cartoons from The 1920’s are now in The Public Domain. All those Disney Channel Stars, Celebs and Adults gives me the creeps😵‍💫

Does the uk get Popeye as well

could you give me an example of how I could actually use these? Great content!

not sure how many of these characters will resonate in modern times...like have kids ever seen a sailor's uniform?

Good video, but the voice over sound was too low on certain scenes. As far as Blackmail goes, it was a silent film, then they offer Hitch a chance to turn it into England's first talkie, so they did some retakes to make it happen. The silent version came out n DVD several years ago. On Buck Rogers, while he is in public Domain, he did not enter at midnight, his copyright was never renewed, so he entered the public domain in the late 50's. My source web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/#ftn4 Thanks for the video.

Surprised to see so many icons here. Although considering the amount of media they have appeared in the course of a century, it's gonna be difficult to write a story about let's say Tintin without getting close to his further appearances for now

Even the children playing Want and Ignorance were perfect. They were probably identical twins but one was made up to look like the opposite sex. They were most likely better looking in real life than in the movie. I doubt that any casting director would post a call for "skinny, ugly twins." They really did look wretched.

This version has the best Tiny Tim by far. In most other versions he looks too robust and healthy. He doesn't just have a problem with his leg. He is slowly dying. Anthony Walters still had his baby teeth when this was filmed so he was probably only five or six years old, which is the age Tiny Tim should be. In the Alistair Sim version and in the Reginald Owen version the actors playing Tiny Tim are eleven years old and look it. They were not tiny at all.

Don't get me wrong, I love A Christmas Carol 1984. But, since the whole cast is British and takes place in Britain by a British author, wish Scrooge was also a British actor. George C. Scott did a good job, but he's not British. Other then that, it's the best version.

As great as Alistair Sim was in his performance of Scrooge, George C. Scott gives an equally compelling performance in this version. Plus, his subdued/controlled/always menacing demeaner plus his sarcastic and malicious humor make his Scrooge all the more fearful. Brilliantly performed! But the reason the nod goes to this film as the G-O-A-T is the fantastic performances of each and every supporting cast character. Every one is brilliant perfection! Cratchit, his wife, their children, Tiny Tim, the Ghosts, Fezziwig, Scrooge's father, Fan, the townspeople, the homeless, Fred, his wife, and their dinner guests - all outstanding! This film is one to treasure each and every Christmas!

This is my favorite too. You really believe Scott as Scrooge and his redemption at the end is perfect

I remember David Warner losing his head in the 1978 movie The Omen.

this was filmed in shrewsbury in shropshire uk-just down the road from where i lived as a teenager-scrooge's grave is still there today in the churchyard!..my friend tim and i watched them filming the scene where scrooge walks to fred's house at the end,i remember being impressed by the cameras and all the fake snow,it is still my fave version of a christmas carol!

When I was a kid in the 70's I always looked forward to the Rankin Bass specials. "T'Was the Night Before Christmas" just kind of vanished after around the early 80's and an admin in the Facebook Rankin Bass group shared a link with me and I enjoyed it as much as I did as a kid. "The Little Drummer Boy" desperately needs some restoration work; it's a terrible transfer on Blu Ray. "Rudolph" was my favorite as a kid, but when I got older I became a big fan of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". I think it's clever and love it. I saw "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" when it was first broadcast and remember nothing about it. And I love your outros.

I've only seen the theatrical cut. A friend just sent me the Blu Ray of the Donner Cut and I'm looking forward to seeing it.

I saw this only once, theatrically. I remember laughing out loud as Piggy's description of Scrooge: "He's mean...and odious...and poorly dressed." I know it's much loved by many viewers and I need to see it again. Have you seen the 1970 musical with Albert Finney? It's my third favorite. I'm not keen on musicals, but it works for me overall.

My favorite version. Sim plays Scrooge as just not a mean man, but a bitter and resentful man who realizes his errors and now can't do anything about it and takes his resentment out on all people around him. HIs attitude is perfectly presented in his interaction with Cratchit in the Past sequence. He asks Cratchit if he expects "the whole day off tomorrow." Cratchit says yes, if it's convenient. Scrooge responds, "Every year you say the same thing, and every year it's just an inconvenient as the last." It is shot like a horror film and that feels right. So many good character actors, including Hermione Baddely and Patric Macnee. A Guinea, is I think, the equivalent of 1 pound, 1 shilling in the money of the time...quite a lot of cash!

Just watching this tonight, believe it or not. I saw the first broadcast in 1984. I was a sophomore in high school and it was real event, much publicized. My second favorite version after the 1951 Sim version. Edward Woodward is the best Ghost of Christmas Present...sarcastic and gives Scrooge no refuge. Warner seems an unlikely Cratchit but plays it beautifully; he seems to respect Scrooge and believe in the good person hiding in there but takes his lumps with a beaten-down yet strong attitude. Angela Pleasence is Donald's daughter, by the way, and she's my favorite Ghost of Christmas Past...snarky and condescending and I love their interactions. Just subscribed, I sense a very good channel here!

Okay, I'm psyched. Thanks for touching on so many important aspects of the story. Perhaps I've avoided this because George C. Scott looks so entirely unpleasant in the promo still. Simms, as you mentioned, has charm even when he's being nasty. But I'll definitely watch this soon with a more open mind. Thanks again. By the way, Eric Norcross has done some really fine film analyses while being a director of small budget films himself. His podcasts are fun. His "43 Degrees North" was filmed and previewed here (I have connections with Chebeague Island), and he's a warm and caring person who believes in community. I also love his way of telling stories in film. www.youtube.com/@EricNorcross

This version pleased me so much I haven't felt the need to see any others - to my own impoverishment I suppose. You hit on all the reasons I like it, as well as reminding me of a few of its weaknesses. I am now very interested both in going back to watch the Muppet version (I've always loved the first Muppet Movie) and in seeing next week what you chose as number one and why. Good job, KC. Story Telling is indeed a wonderful thing. (I'm a baby boomer, graduated high school in '71)

What I love about this version of A Christmas Carol is that it is a faithful adaptation of Charles Dicken's story that can be watched by young and old alike. Its not been dumbed down for a younger audience, its costumes are so wonderful (Abby Cox did a video of how much she loved the detail put into the costumes) and its a lovely moral story. Its a great movie, its certainly one of my favourite versions.

I think this version is underrated. To my knowledge, it's never mentioned in the same breath as say the Muppet Carol, or the ones with Alastair Sim & George C Scott. This version of A Christmas Carol deserves to be on blu ray after being stuck on the DVD format since the early 2000s.

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I have another idea for you make a video about super villainess aka fimale supervillains in the public domain