Betty Boop, early 'Nancy Drew Mystery Stories,' Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying,' and more lose U.S. copyright protection on ...

These are four pieces of motion picture film made by Eugene Augustin Lauste while experimenting with sound-on-film technology. Two of the pieces are examples of a sound only, variable area process, ...

Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public ...

Love old or unusual movies? Here are several I recommend. “The Death Kiss” (1932): This low-budget early sound film was a result of smart producing and casting. Uniting several cast members from ...

Illustrating the centrality of the Case Research Laboratory in multiple aspects of early sound film, it appears that the lab was significantly involved in the earliest developments of television as ...

A short Edison Kinetophone film, distributed by General Film Company, representative of Edison’s early sound-film experiments. Details on plot, cast, and runtime are not fully documented in surviving ...