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List of films in the public domain in the United States

Index List of films in the public domain in the United States

This is a non-definitive list of films in the public domain in the United States. [1]

375 relations: A Boy and His Dog (1975 film), A Bucket of Blood, A Lady to Love, A Star Is Born (1954 film), A Star Is Born (1976 film), Abel Ferrara, Abraham Lincoln (1930 film), Action at Anguar, AFI Catalog of Feature Films, Africa Screams, Alex Nicol, Alfred E. Green, Algiers (film), Allan Dwan, American Film Institute, American International Pictures, Andrew V. McLaglen, Angel and the Badman, Anthony Mann, Armand Schaefer, At War with the Army, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Babes in Toyland (1934 film), Beat the Devil (film), Beau Brummel (1924 film), Beau Ideal, Becky Sharp, Behind Office Doors, Bernard L. Kowalski, Bernard Vorhaus, Berne Convention, Billboard (magazine), Bird of Paradise (1932 film), Birth of the B-29, Blood on the Sun, Bloody Disgusting, Bloomsbury Publishing, Blue Steel (1934 film), Bowery at Midnight, Brideless Groom, Bugs Bunny, Business Insider, Buster Keaton, Byron Haskin, C3 Entertainment, Cambria Productions, Captain Kidd (film), Carnival of Souls, Charade (1963 film), Charles Barton (director), ..., Charles Walters, Charlie Chaplin, Check and Double Check, Chicago Review Press, Christy Cabanne, Clarence Brown, Clark Gable, Clyde Bruckman, Columbia Pictures, Combat America, Conspiracy (1930 film), Copyright, Copyright Catalog, Copyright law of the United States, Copyright status of work by the U.S. government, Copyright status of work by U.S. subnational governments, Copyright symbol, Copyright Term Extension Act, Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film), D. W. Griffith, D.O.A. (1949 film), D.O.A. (1988 film), Daily Republic, Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Danger Lights, Dave Fleischer, Debbie Does Dallas, Delmer Daves, Dementia 13, Deseret News, Detour (1945 film), Disorder in the Court, Dixiana (film), Don Hartman, Dudley Murphy, Dwain Esper, Eagle-Lion Films, ECW Press, Ed Wood, Edgar G. Ulmer, Edward Bernds, Edward F. Cline, Edward H. Griffith, Elliott Nugent, Embassy Pictures, Ernest Hemingway, Father's Little Dividend, Film rights, Film Superlist, First Motion Picture Unit, Flavorwire, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Borzage, Frank Capra, Frank Lloyd, FremantleMedia, Fritz Lang, George A. Romero, George Archainbaud, George B. Seitz, George Stevens, Glen or Glenda, Go for Broke! (1951 film), God's Little Acre (film), Government, Gregory La Cava, Gulliver's Travels (1939 film), Gus Meins, H. C. Potter, Hachette Book Group, Hal Leonard Corporation, Hal Walker, Half Shot at Sunrise, Harman and Ising, Harold F. Kress, Harry Beaumont, Harry L. Fraser, Hemp for Victory, Henry King (director), Henry Koster, Herbert Biberman, Herbert Brenon, Herk Harvey, His Girl Friday, History of film, Hook, Line and Sinker (1930 film), House on Haunted Hill, Howard Hawks, Howard Hughes, Ida Lupino, Indestructible Man, IndieWire, Individual, Inside the Lines, Irving Pichel, It's a Wonderful Life, Jack Pollexfen, Jack White (film producer), James Bond (literary character), James Edward Grant, James Whale, Japanese Relocation (1942 film), Jean Renoir, Jean Yarbrough, John Cromwell (director), John Francis Dillon (director), John Huston, John M. Stahl, Jules White, Kansas City Confidential, Kept Husbands, King Vidor, L. Q. Jones, Last Clear Chance, Lawful Larceny, Leathernecking, Leo McCarey, Letter of Introduction (film), Lewis Allen (director), Lewis Milestone, Liberty Films, Life with Father (film), Lippert Pictures, List of animated films in the public domain in the United States, List of open-source films, List of public domain works with multimedia adaptations, List of years in film, Lists of films, Lloyd Bacon, Lonely Wives, Los Angeles Times, Louis J. Gasnier, Love Affair (1939 film), Lowell Sherman, Luther Reed, Malice in the Palace, Maniac (1934 film), Manos: The Hands of Fate, McFarland & Company, McLintock!, Meet John Doe, Melville W. Brown, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael Curtiz, Michael Gordon (film director), Millie (film), Milton S. Eisenhower, Mitchell Leisen, Monogram Pictures, Mr. Imperium, MTV News, My Dear Secretary, My Favorite Brunette, My Japan, My Man Godfrey, New York (magazine), Nicholas Webster, Night of the Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead (1990 film), Night of the Living Dead 3D, Nolo (publisher), Norman Maurer, Nothing Sacred (film), Of Human Bondage (1934 film), Open-source film, Organization, Orphan work, Orson Welles, Otto Preminger, Outline of film, Paramount Pictures, Partners of the Trail (1931 film), Paul L. Stein, Paul Sloane (director), Penny Serenade, Phil Karlson, Popeye, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, Private Snafu, Producers Releasing Corporation, Public domain, Public domain in the United States, Quicksand (1950 film), Rain (1932 film), Randy Rides Alone, Reefer Madness, Republic Pictures, Richard Brooks, Richard Thorpe, Richard Whorf, Riders of Destiny, RKO Pictures, Road to Bali, Robert Gordon (director), Robert N. Bradbury, Robert Pirosh, Rock, Rock, Rock (film), Rock, Rock, Rock (soundtrack), Roger Corman, Rouben Mamoulian, Rowland V. Lee, Rowman & Littlefield, Roy Del Ruth, Roy Pomeroy, Royal Wedding, Rudolph Maté, Rupert Julian, Russell Mack, Sagebrush Trail, Salt of the Earth (1954 film), Sam Peckinpah, San Francisco Chronicle, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Santa Fe Trail (film), Scarlet Street, Second Chorus, Sidney Salkow, Sin Takes a Holiday, Sing a Song of Six Pants, Sinners in Paradise, Slate (magazine), Smouldering Fires (film), Stanley Donen, Stewart v. Abend, Suddenly (1954 film), Superman (1940s cartoons), Supreme Court of the United States, Swing High, Swing Low (film), Target for Today, Target Nevada (1951 film), Teenagers from Outer Space, That Justice Be Done, The A.V. Club, The Amazing Mr. X, The Animal Kingdom, The Boston Globe, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, The Dance of Life, The Deadly Companions, The Devil Bat, The Driller Killer, The Emperor Jones (1933 film), The Fight for the Sky, The Filmgroup, The Front Page, The Front Page (1931 film), The General (1926 film), The Gold Rush, The Gorilla (1939 film), The Great Flamarion, The Greatest Gift, The Hitch-Hiker, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film), The Inspector General (film), The Jackie Robinson Story, The Joe Louis Story, The Lady Refuses, The Last Man on Earth (1964 film), The Last Time I Saw Paris, The Little Princess (1939 film), The Little Shop of Horrors, The Lucky Texan, The Man from Utah, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Negro Soldier, The New Three Stooges, The New York Times, The Outlaw, The Painted Hills, The Pay-Off, The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film), The Red House (film), The Royal Bed, The Screaming Skull, The Secret Hour (film), The Silver Horde (1930 film), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film), The Southerner (film), The Star Packer, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The Stranger (1946 film), The Terror (1963 film), The Truth About Charlie, The Wasp Woman, They Knew What They Wanted (play), Three Guys Named Mike, Till the Clouds Roll By, Tom Graeff, Too Late for Tears, Topper Returns, Turner Classic Movies, Ubaldo Ragona, Union Pacific Railroad, United Artists, United States, United States Army, United States Copyright Office, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Office of War Information, Universal Pictures, University Press of Kentucky, UPA (animation studio), Vengeance Valley, Victor Hugo Halperin, Victor Sjöström, Vincente Minnelli, Visible Ink Press, Wallace Fox, Wallace Worsley, Walter Lang, Walter Reade, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Animation, West of the Divide, White Zombie (film), Why We Fight, William A. Wellman, William Castle, William Keighley, Wings for This Man, Wired (magazine), Wives Under Suspicion, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (325 more) »

A Boy and His Dog (1975 film)

A Boy and His Dog is a 1975 American science fiction comedy thriller film produced, written (with Alvy Moore), and directed by L. Q. Jones, starring Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Ron Feinberg, and Jason Robards.

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A Bucket of Blood

A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American black comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman.

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A Lady to Love

A Lady to Love is a 1930 American drama film directed by Victor Sjöström and written by Sidney Howard.

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A Star Is Born (1954 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film written by Moss Hart, starring Judy Garland and James Mason, and directed by George Cukor.

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A Star Is Born (1976 film)

A Star Is Born is a 1976 American musical drama film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand, an easy listening folkie type ingenue who enters the music business, and meets and falls in love with an established male rock'n'roll star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline.

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Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content in his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings.

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Abraham Lincoln (1930 film)

Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln", is a 1930 Pre-Code biographical film about American president Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith.

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Action at Anguar

Action at Angaur is a 1945 short documentary film created by the United States War Department during World War II.

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AFI Catalog of Feature Films

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute to catalog all commercially made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures, from the earliest days of the industry to the present.

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Africa Screams

Africa Screams is a 1949 American adventure comedy film starring Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Barton that parodied the safari genre.

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Alex Nicol

Alexander Livingston "Alex" Nicol Jr. (January 20, 1916 — July 29, 2001) was an American actor and film director.

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Alfred E. Green

Alfred Edward Green (July 11, 1889 – September 4, 1960) was an American movie director.

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Algiers (film)

Algiers is a 1938 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr.

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Allan Dwan

Allan Dwan (3 April 1885 – 28 December 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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American International Pictures

A typical AIP double feature that inspired the idea for Grindhouse. --> American International Pictures (AIP) was a film production and distribution company formed on April 2, 1954 as American Releasing Corporation (ARC) by James H. Nicholson, former Sales Manager of Realart Pictures, and Samuel Z. Arkoff, an entertainment lawyer.

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Andrew V. McLaglen

Andrew Victor McLaglen (July 28, 1920 – August 30, 2014) was a British-born American film and television director, known for Westerns and adventure films, often starring John Wayne or James Stewart.

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Angel and the Badman

Angel and the Badman is a 1947 American Western film written and directed by James Edward Grant and starring John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey and Bruce Cabot.

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Anthony Mann

Anthony Mann (June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967) was an American actor and film director, most notably of film noir and Westerns.

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Armand Schaefer

Armand Schaefer (5 August 1898 – 26 September 1967) was a Canadian film producer and director.

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At War with the Army

At War with the Army is a 1950 American musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis and introducing Polly Bergen.

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Attack of the Giant Leeches

Attack of the Giant Leeches is an independently made 1959 black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced by Gene Corman and directed by Bernard L. Kowalski.

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Babes in Toyland (1934 film)

Babes in Toyland is a Laurel and Hardy musical film released on November 30, 1934.

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Beat the Devil (film)

Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film.

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Beau Brummel (1924 film)

Beau Brummel is a 1924 American silent film historical drama starring John Barrymore and Mary Astor.

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Beau Ideal

Beau Ideal is a 1931 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Herbert Brenon and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp is a 1935 American historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins.

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Behind Office Doors

Behind Office Doors is a 1931 pre-Code American drama film directed by Melville W. Brown, from a screenplay by Carey Wilson and J. Walter Ruben, based on Alan Schultz's novel, Private Secretary.

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Bernard L. Kowalski

Bernard L. Kowalski (August 2, 1929 – October 26, 2007) was an American film and television director, nominated for two Primetime Emmys.

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Bernard Vorhaus

Bernard Vorhaus (December 25, 1904 – November 23, 2000) was an American film director born in New York City.

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Berne Convention

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, is an international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne, Switzerland, in 1886.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Bird of Paradise (1932 film)

Bird of Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code American romantic adventure drama film directed by King Vidor, starring Dolores del Río and Joel McCrea.

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Birth of the B-29

Birth of the B-29 was a 1945 propaganda film commissioned by the US War Department.

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Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American drama romantic thriller war film directed by Frank Lloyd starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney.

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Bloody Disgusting

Bloody Disgusting is an American horror genre website covering horror films, video games, comics, and music, especially known for producing the V/H/S trilogy of anthology horror films.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Blue Steel (1934 film)

Blue Steel is a 1934 Pre-Code Western film in which John Wayne plays a U.S. Marshal who is trying to capture the Polka Dot Bandit, who has taken off with $4,000.

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Bowery at Midnight

Bowery at Midnight is a 1942 American horror film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Bela Lugosi and John Archer.

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Brideless Groom

Brideless Groom is the 101st short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1947 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard).

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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.

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Business Insider

Business Insider is an American financial and business news website that also operates international editions in the UK, Australia, China, Germany, France, South Africa, India, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nordics, Poland, Spanish and Singapore.

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Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.

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Byron Haskin

Byron Conrad Haskin (April 22, 1899 – April 16, 1984) was an American film and television director.

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C3 Entertainment

C3 Entertainment, Inc., formerly Comedy III Productions, is an American entertainment and licensing company founded in 1959 by American comedy act The Three Stooges.

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Cambria Productions

Cambria Productions was the West Hollywood, California animation production studio most famous for its wide usage of the Syncro-Vox technique of animation developed by Edwin Gillette, who was a co-partner in the studio.

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Captain Kidd (film)

Captain Kidd is a 1945 adventure film starring Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton.

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Carnival of Souls

Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American independent horror film written, produced, and directed by Herk Harvey, and starring Candace Hilligoss.

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Charade (1963 film)

Charade is a 1963 American romantic comedy mystery film directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.

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Charles Barton (director)

Charles Barton (May 25, 1902December 5, 1981) was a film and vaudeville actor and film director.

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Charles Walters

Charles Walters (November 17, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Check and Double Check

Check and Double Check is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film produced and released by RKO Radio Pictures and based on the top-rated Amos 'n' Andy radio show.

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Chicago Review Press

Chicago Review Press, or CRP, is a U.S. book publisher and an independent company founded in 1973.

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Christy Cabanne

William Christy Cabanne (April 16, 1888 – October 15, 1950) was an American film director, screenwriter and silent film actor.

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Clarence Brown

Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.

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Clark Gable

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King".

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Clyde Bruckman

Clyde Adolf Bruckman (June 30, 1894January 4, 1955) was an American writer and director of comedy films during the late silent era as well as the early sound era of cinema.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Combat America

Combat America is a 1945 documentary film produced in World War II, narrated by Clark Gable.

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Conspiracy (1930 film)

Conspiracy is a 1930 American pre-Code mystery melodrama film produced and distributed by RKO Pictures and directed by Christy Cabanne.

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Copyright

Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.

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Copyright Catalog

United States copyright registrations, renewals, and other catalog entries since 1978 are published online at the.

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Copyright law of the United States

The copyright law of the United States is intended to encourage the creation of art and culture by rewarding authors and artists with a set of exclusive rights.

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Copyright status of work by the U.S. government

A work of the United States government, as defined by the United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee" of the federal government "as part of that person's official duties." "A 'work of the United States Government' is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties." In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain.

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Copyright status of work by U.S. subnational governments

The copyright status of works produced by the governments of states, territories, and municipalities in the United States varies.

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Copyright symbol

The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, © (a circled capital letter C for copyright), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings (which are indicated with the ℗ symbol).

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Copyright Term Extension Act

The Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998 extended copyright terms in the United States.

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1950 drama romance film based on the 1897 French Alexandrine verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American director, writer, and producer who pioneered modern cinematic techniques.

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D.O.A. (1949 film)

D.O.A. is a 1949 American film noir directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the genre.

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D.O.A. (1988 film)

D.O.A. is a 1988 American crime-thriller film and a remake of the 1949 film noir of the same name.

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Daily Republic

The Daily Republic is a daily newspaper in the town of Fairfield, California.

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Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (sometimes initialized as DCC, and referred to by some fans as "Dallas Cheerleaders" and "Dallas Cowgirls," and nicknamed "America's Sweethearts") are the National Football League cheerleading squad representing the Dallas Cowboys.

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Danger Lights

Danger Lights is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film, directed by George B. Seitz, from a screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman.

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Dave Fleischer

David Fleischer (July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American film director and producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer.

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Debbie Does Dallas

Debbie Does Dallas is a 1978 pornographic film starring Bambi Woods.

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Delmer Daves

Delmer Lawrence Daves (July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter, director and producer.

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Dementia 13

Dementia 13 (released as The Haunted and the Hunted in the United Kingdom) is a 1963 horror-thriller film released by American International Pictures, starring William Campbell, Patrick Magee and Luana Anders.

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Deseret News

The Deseret News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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Detour (1945 film)

Detour is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage.

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Disorder in the Court

Disorder in the Court is the 15th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1936 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard).

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Dixiana (film)

Dixiana (1930) is a lavish American pre-Code comedy, musical film directed by Luther Reed and produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.

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Don Hartman

Samuel Donald Hartman (18 November 1900, New York - 23 March 1958, Palm Springs, California) was an American screenwriter and director.

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Dudley Murphy

Dudley Murphy (July 10, 1897 – February 22, 1968) was an American film director.

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Dwain Esper

Dwain Atkins Esper (October 7, 1894 – October 18, 1982) was an American director and producer of exploitation films.

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Eagle-Lion Films

Eagle-Lion Films was a British film production company owned by J. Arthur Rank intended to release British productions in the United States.

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ECW Press

ECW Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario.

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Ed Wood

Edward Davis Wood Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978) was an American filmmaker, actor, and author.

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Edgar G. Ulmer

Edgar Georg Ulmer (September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was a Jewish-Moravian, Austrian-American film director who mainly worked on Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions.

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Edward Bernds

Edward Bernds (July 12, 1905May 20, 2000)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jul/19/guardianobituaries.filmnews was an American screenwriter and director, born in Chicago, Illinois.

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Edward F. Cline

Edward Francis "Eddie" Cline (November 4, 1891 – May 22, 1961) was an American screenwriter, actor, writer and director best known for his work with comedians W. C. Fields and Buster Keaton.

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Edward H. Griffith

Edward H. Griffith (August 23, 1888 – March 3, 1975) (also known as E H Griffith, Lieut. Edward H. Griffith, Edward Griffith, and E. H. Griffith) was an American motion picture director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Elliott Nugent

Elliott Nugent (September 20, 1896 in Dover, Ohio – August 9, 1980 in New York City) was an American actor, playwright, writer, and film director.

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Embassy Pictures

Embassy Pictures Corporation (also and later known as AVCO Embassy Pictures as well as Embassy Films Associates) was an American independent film production and distribution studio responsible for such films as Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, The Graduate, The Lion in Winter, Carnal Knowledge, The Night Porter, Phantasm, The Fog, Prom Night, Scanners, The Howling, Escape from New York, and This Is Spinal Tap.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Father's Little Dividend

Father's Little Dividend is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor.

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Film rights

Film rights are rights under copyright law to produce a film as a derivative work of a given item of intellectual property.

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Film Superlist

Film Superlist: Motion Pictures in the U.S. Public Domain is a series of reference books created by attorney Walter Hurst about the copyright status of films.

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First Motion Picture Unit

The First Motion Picture Unit (FMPU), later 18th Army Air Forces Base Unit, was the primary film production unit of the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II and was the first military unit made up entirely of professionals from the film industry.

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Flavorwire

Flavorwire is a New York City-based online culture magazine.

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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer.

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Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an American film director and actor, most remembered for directing 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), Man's Castle (1933), and The Mortal Storm (1940).

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Frank Capra

Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Frank Lloyd

Frank William George Lloyd (2 February 1886 – 10 August 1960) was a British-born American film director, scriptwriter, producer, and actor.

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FremantleMedia

FremantleMedia Group Limited is a British international television content and production/distribution subsidiary of Bertelsmann's RTL Group, founded in 2001, and evolved as Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company.

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Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian filmmaker, writer and editor, best known for his series of gruesome and satirical horror films about an imagined zombie apocalypse, beginning with Night of the Living Dead (1968), which is often considered a progenitor of the fictional zombie of modern culture.

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George Archainbaud

George Archainbaud (May 7, 1890 – February 20, 1959) was a French-born American film and television director.

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George B. Seitz

George Brackett Seitz (January 3, 1888 – July 8, 1944) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director.

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George Stevens

George Cooper Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.

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Glen or Glenda

Glen or Glenda is a 1953 American drama film written, directed by and starring Ed Wood (credited in his starring role as "Daniel Davis"), and featuring Bela Lugosi and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller.

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Go for Broke! (1951 film)

Go for Broke! is a 1951 war film directed by Robert Pirosh, New York Times. December 31, 1989.

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God's Little Acre (film)

God's Little Acre is a 1958 American film of Erskine Caldwell's 1933 novel of the same name.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.

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Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava (March 10, 1892 – March 1, 1952) was an American film director best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door, which earned him nominations for Academy Award for Best Director.

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Gulliver's Travels (1939 film)

Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American cel-animated Technicolor feature film, produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer for Fleischer Studios about an explorer who helps a small kingdom who declared war after an argument over a wedding song.

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Gus Meins

Gus Meins (March 6, 1893 – August 1, 1940 as Gustave Peter Ludwig Luley) was a German-American film director.

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H. C. Potter

Henry Codman Potter (sometimes II or Jr; November 13, 1904 – August 31, 1977) was an American theatrical producer and director and film director.

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Hachette Book Group

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

Hal Leonard Corporation is a United States music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.

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Hal Walker

Hal Walker (March 20, 1896- July 3, 1972) was an American film director and assistant director.

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Half Shot at Sunrise

Half Shot at Sunrise is a 1930 American comedy film starring the comedy duo Wheeler & Woolsey and Dorothy Lee.

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Harman and Ising

Hugh Harman (August 31, 1903 – November 25, 1982) and Rudolf Carl "Rudy" Ising (August 7, 1903 – July 18, 1992) were an American animation team best known for founding the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studios.

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Harold F. Kress

Harold F. Kress (June 26, 1913 – September 18, 1999) was an American film editor with more than fifty feature film credits; he also directed several feature films in the early 1950s.

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Harry Beaumont

Harry Beaumont (February 10, 1888 – December 22, 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter.

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Harry L. Fraser

Harry L. Fraser (31 March 1889 – 8 April 1974) was an American film director and screenplay writer.

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Hemp for Victory

Hemp for Victory is a black-and-white United States government film made during World War II and released in 1942, explaining the uses of hemp, encouraging farmers to grow as much as possible.

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Henry King (director)

Henry King (January 24, 1886June 29, 1982) was an American film director.

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Henry Koster

Henry Koster (born Hermann Kosterlitz, May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was a German-born film director.

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Herbert Biberman

Herbert J. Biberman (March 4, 1900 – June 30, 1971) was an American screenwriter and film director.

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Herbert Brenon

Herbert Brenon (13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) born Alexander Herbert Reginald St.

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Herk Harvey

Harold Arnold Harvey (June 3, 1924 – April 3, 1996) — known as Herk Harvey — was an American film director, screenwriter, actor and film producer.

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His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, from an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of the play The Front Page by Hecht and MacArthur.

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History of film

Although the start of the history of film is not clearly defined, the commercial, public screening of ten of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895 can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.

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Hook, Line and Sinker (1930 film)

Hook, Line and Sinker is a 1930 American pre-Code slapstick comedy directed by Edward F. Cline from a screenplay by Ralph Spence and Tim Whelan.

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House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 American horror film directed by William Castle.

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Howard Hawks

Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.

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Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

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Ida Lupino

Ida Lupino (4 February 1918Recorded in Births Mar 1918 Camberwell Vol. 1d, p. 1019 (Free BMD). Transcribed as "Lupine" in the official births index – 3 August 1995) was an English-American actress and singer, who became a pioneering director and producer—the only woman working within the 1950s Hollywood studio system to do so.

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Indestructible Man

Indestructible Man is a 1956 American crime horror science fiction film, an original screenplay by Vy Russell and Sue Dwiggins for producer-director Jack Pollexfen and starring Lon Chaney, Jr., Ross Elliott and Robert Shayne.

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IndieWire

IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996.

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Individual

An individual is that which exists as a distinct entity.

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Inside the Lines

Inside the Lines is a 1930 American Pre-Code spy drama film starring Betty Compson, Ralph Forbes, and Mischa Auer.

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Irving Pichel

Irving Pichel (June 24, 1891 – July 13, 1954) was an American actor and film director, who won acclaim both as an actor and director in his Hollywood career.

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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift, which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1945.

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Jack Pollexfen

Jack Pollexfen (1908–2003) was an American writer and producer best known for his work in science fiction and monster movies of the 1950s with Aubrey Wisberg.

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Jack White (film producer)

Jack White (born Jacob Weiss, March 2, 1897 – April 10, 1984) was a Hungarian-born American film producer, director and writer.

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James Bond (literary character)

Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953.

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James Edward Grant

James Edward Grant (July 2, 1905 – February 19, 1966) was an American short story writer and screenwriter who contributed to more than fifty films between 1935 and 1971.

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James Whale

James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theater director and actor.

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Japanese Relocation (1942 film)

Japanese Relocation is a 1942 short film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information and distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry.

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Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.

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Jean Yarbrough

Jean Yarbrough (August 22, 1901 – August 2, 1975) was an American film director.

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John Cromwell (director)

Elwood Dager Cromwell (December 23, 1886 – September 26, 1979), known as John Cromwell, was an American film and stage director and actor.

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John Francis Dillon (director)

John Francis Dillon (July 13, 1884 – April 4, 1934) was an American film director and actor of the silent era.

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John Huston

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American-Irish film director, screenwriter and actor.

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John M. Stahl

John Malcolm Stahl (January 21, 1886 – January 12, 1950) was an American film director and producer.

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Jules White

Jules White (born Julius Weiss; 17 September 190030 April 1985) was a Hungarian-born American film director and producer best known for his short-subject comedies starring The Three Stooges.

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Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 American film noir and crime film directed by Phil Karlson starring John Payne and Coleen Gray.

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Kept Husbands

Kept Husbands is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring Dorothy Mackaill and Joel McCrea, with major supporting roles filled by Robert McWade, Florence Roberts and Mary Carr.

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King Vidor

King Wallis Vidor (February 8, 1894 – November 1, 1982) was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades.

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L. Q. Jones

L.

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Last Clear Chance

Last Clear Chance is a 1959 American short film produced and directed by Robert Carlisle.

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Lawful Larceny

Lawful Larceny is a 1930 American melodramatic film, directed by Lowell Sherman from Jane Murfin's screenplay.

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Leathernecking

Leathernecking is an 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline, from a screenplay by Alfred Jackson and Jane Murfin, adapted from the Broadway musical comedy Present Arms, by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Herbert Fields.

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Leo McCarey

Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 – July 5, 1969) was a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Letter of Introduction (film)

Letter of Introduction is a 1938 American comedy-drama film directed by John M. Stahl.

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Lewis Allen (director)

Lewis Allen (25 December 1905 – 3 May 2000) was an English director.

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Lewis Milestone

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-born American motion picture director.

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Liberty Films

Liberty Films was an independent motion picture production company founded in California by Frank Capra and Samuel J. Briskin in April 1945.

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Life with Father (film)

Life with Father is a 1947 Technicolor American comedy film.

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Lippert Pictures

Lippert Pictures was an American film production and distribution company controlled by Robert L. Lippert.

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List of animated films in the public domain in the United States

The following is a list of animated films in the public domain in the United States for which there is a source to verify its status as public domain under the terms of U.S. copyright law.

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List of open-source films

For more information on the use of the term Open Source in connection with films, see Open source film.

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List of public domain works with multimedia adaptations

Following is a list of public domain works with multimedia adaptations.

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List of years in film

This list of years in film indexes the individual year in film pages.

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Lists of films

This is an index of lists of films.

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Lloyd Bacon

Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director.

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Lonely Wives

Lonely Wives is a 1931 American comedy film directed by Russell Mack and produced by E.B. Derr for Pathé Exchange, and was distributed by RKO Pictures after the merger of the two studios; it starred Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante, and Patsy Ruth Miller.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Louis J. Gasnier

Louis Joseph Gasnier (September 15, 1875 – February 15, 1963) was a French-born American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.

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Love Affair (1939 film)

Love Affair is a 1939 American romantic film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer and featuring Maria Ouspenskaya.

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Lowell Sherman

Lowell J. Sherman (October 11, 1885 – December 28, 1934) was an American actor and film director.

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Luther Reed

Luther Reed (July 14, 1888 – November 16, 1961) was an American screenwriter and film director.

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Malice in the Palace

Malice in the Palace is the 117th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1949 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard).

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Maniac (1934 film)

Maniac, also known as Sex Maniac, is a 1934 black-and-white exploitation/horror film, directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildagarde Stadie, Esper's wife, as a loose adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat", with references to his "Murders in the Rue Morgue".

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Manos: The Hands of Fate

Manos: The Hands of Fate is a 1966 American low-budget horror film.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.

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McLintock!

McLintock! is a 1963 American western comedy film, starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.

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Meet John Doe

Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.

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Melville W. Brown

Melville W. Brown (March 10, 1887 – January 31, 1938), also known simply as Melville Brown, was an American film director, screenwriter and occasional actor.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz (born Manó Kaminer; December 24, 1886 April 11, 1962) was a Hungarian-born American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history.

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Michael Gordon (film director)

Michael Gordon (born Irving Kunin Gordon; September 6, 1909 – April 29, 1993) was an American stage actor and stage and film director.

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Millie (film)

Millie (1931) is a pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon from a screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Ralph Morgan, based on a novel of the same name by Donald Henderson Clarke.

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Milton S. Eisenhower

Milton Stover Eisenhower (September 15, 1899 – May 2, 1985) was an American educational administrator.

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Mitchell Leisen

Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer.

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Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation is a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, mostly on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

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Mr. Imperium

Mr.

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MTV News

MTV News is the news production division of MTV.

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My Dear Secretary

My Dear Secretary is a 1948 American comedy film directed by Charles Martin, starring Laraine Day and Kirk Douglas.

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My Favorite Brunette

My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 American romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.

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My Japan

My Japan is a 1945 American anti-Japanese propaganda short film produced to spur sale of American war bonds.

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My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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Nicholas Webster

Nicholas Webster (July 24, 1912 – August 12, 2006) was an American film and television director.

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Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film written, directed, photographed and edited by George A. Romero, co-written by John Russo, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea.

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Night of the Living Dead (1990 film)

Night of the Living Dead is a 1990 American horror film directed by Tom Savini and starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, and Tom Towles.

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Night of the Living Dead 3D

Night of the Living Dead 3D or Night of the Living DE3D is a 2006 horror film made in 3D.

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Nolo (publisher)

Nolo, formerly known as Nolo Press, is a publisher in Berkeley, California, that produces do-it-yourself legal books and software that allows people to handle simple legal matters such as making wills or writing business partnership contracts.

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Norman Maurer

Norman Albert Maurer (May 13, 1926 – November 23, 1986), a comic book artist and writer, was also a director and producer of films and television shows.

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Nothing Sacred (film)

Nothing Sacred is an American Technicolor screwball comedy film directed in 1937 by William A. Wellman, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March.

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Of Human Bondage (1934 film)

Of Human Bondage is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Cromwell and is widely regarded by critics as the film that made Bette Davis a star.

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Open-source film

Open-source films (also known as open-content films and free-content films) are films which are produced and distributed by using free and open-source and open content methodologies.

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Organization

An organization or organisation is an entity comprising multiple people, such as an institution or an association, that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

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Orphan work

An orphan work is a copyright protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria-Hungary.

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Outline of film

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to film: Film – refers to motion pictures as individual projects and to the field in general.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Partners of the Trail (1931 film)

Partners of the Trail is a 1931 American western film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Tom Tyler, Betty Mack and Lafe McKee.

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Paul L. Stein

Paul Ludwig Stein (4 February 1892 – 2 May 1951) was an Austrian-born film director with 67 films to his credit.

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Paul Sloane (director)

Paul Sloane (April 19, 1893 – November 15, 1963) was a screenwriter and film director who directed 26 films from 1925 to 1952, and wrote or co-wrote 35 films.

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Penny Serenade

Penny Serenade is a 1941 film melodrama starring Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, and Edgar Buchanan.

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Phil Karlson

Phil Karlson (born Philip N. Karlstein; July 2, 1908 – December 12, 1982) was an American film director.

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Popeye

Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar.

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Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye Color Feature series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 27, 1936 by Paramount Pictures.

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Private Snafu

Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, that were produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II.

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Producers Releasing Corporation

Producers Releasing Corporation was one of the less prestigious film studios of Hollywood which all-together made what was referred to as 'Poverty Row', and lasted from 1939–47.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Public domain in the United States

Works are in the public domain if they are not covered by intellectual property rights, such as copyright, at all, or if the intellectual property rights to the works has expired.

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Quicksand (1950 film)

Quicksand is a 1950 American film noir crime film starring Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre in a story about a garage mechanic's descent into crime.

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Rain (1932 film)

Rain is a 1932 South Seas drama film directed by Lewis Milestone with portions filmed at Santa Catalina Island, California.

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Randy Rides Alone

Randy Rides Alone is a 1934 American Pre-Code Western film.

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Reefer Madness

Reefer Madness (originally made as Tell Your Children and sometimes titled as The Burning Question, Dope Addict, Doped Youth, and Love Madness) is a 1936 American propaganda film revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when high school students are lured by pushers to try marijuana—from a hit and run accident, to manslaughter, suicide, attempted rape, hallucinations, and descent into madness due to marijuana addiction.

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Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 to 1967, that was based in Los Angeles, California.

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Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer.

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Richard Thorpe

Richard Thorpe (born Rollo Smolt Thorpe; February 24, 1896 – May 1, 1991) was an American film director best known for his long career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Richard Whorf

Richard Whorf (June 4, 1906 – December 14, 1966) was an American actor, author, director, and designer.

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Riders of Destiny

Riders of Destiny is a 1933 pre-Code Western musical film starring 26-year-old John Wayne as Singin' Sandy Saunders, the screen's second singing cowboy (the first being Ken Maynard in the 1929 film The Wagon Master).

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Road to Bali

Road to Bali is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour.

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Robert Gordon (director)

Robert Gordon (August 21, 1913 in Pittsburgh – December 1, 1990 in Los Angeles) was an American director and actor.

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Robert N. Bradbury

Robert N. Bradbury (March 23, 1886 – November 24, 1949) was an American film director and screenwriter who directed 125 movies between 1918 and 1941.

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Robert Pirosh

Robert Pirosh (April 1, 1910 – December 25, 1989) was an American motion picture and television screenwriter and director.

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Rock, Rock, Rock (film)

Rock, Rock, Rock! is a 1956 black-and-white motion picture conceived, co-written and co-produced by Milton Subotsky and directed by Will Price.

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Rock, Rock, Rock (soundtrack)

Rock, Rock, Rock! is a soundtrack album for the motion picture of the same name and was the very first LP ever released by Chess Records labeled LP 1425 and Chuck Berry's first appearance on a Long Player.

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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor.

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Rouben Mamoulian

Rouben Zachary Mamoulian (in Ռուբէն Մամուլեան) (October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an Armenian-American film and theatre director.

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Rowland V. Lee

Rowland Vance Lee (September 6, 1891 – December 21, 1975) was an American film director, actor writer, and producer.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.

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Roy Del Ruth

Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – April 27, 1961) was an American film director.

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Roy Pomeroy

Roy Pomeroy (April 20, 1892 – September 3, 1947) was an American special effects artist.

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Royal Wedding

Royal Wedding is a 1951 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.

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Rudolph Maté

Rudolph Maté, born Rudolf Mayer (21 January 1898 – 27 October 1964), was a Polish-Hungarian-American cinematographer, film director and film producer who worked as cameraman and cinematographer in Hungary, Austria, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, before moving to Hollywood in the mid 1930s.

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Rupert Julian

Rupert Julian (25 January 1879 – 27 December 1943) was a New Zealand cinema actor, director, writer and producer.

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Russell Mack

Russell Mack (November 11, 1892 – June 1, 1972) was an American vaudeville performer in the 1910s and a stage actor, film director, and producer in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Sagebrush Trail

Sagebrush Trail (UK title An Innocent Man) is a 1933 American Pre-Code Western film with locations filmed at Bronson Canyon starring John Wayne and featuring Lane Chandler and Yakima Canutt (Canutt plays the leader of the gang as well as doubling for Wayne in several stunts).

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Salt of the Earth (1954 film)

Salt of the Earth is a 1954 American drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico.

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Sam Peckinpah

David Samuel Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch (1969).

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 American science fiction comedy film directed by Nicholas Webster, produced and written by Paul L. Jacobson based on a story by Glenville Mareth, stars John Call as Santa Claus, and features an eight year old Pia Zadora as one of the Martian children.

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Santa Fe Trail (film)

Santa Fe Trail is a 1940 American western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan and Alan Hale.

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Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street is a 1945 drama film noir directed by Fritz Lang.

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Second Chorus

Second Chorus is a 1940 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Paulette Goddard and Fred Astaire and featuring Artie Shaw, Burgess Meredith and Charles Butterworth, with music by Artie Shaw, Bernie Hanighen, Hal Borne and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

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Sidney Salkow

Sidney Salkow (June 16, 1911 – October 18, 2000) was an American film director (more than 50 motion pictures), screenwriter, and television director.

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Sin Takes a Holiday

Sin Takes a Holiday is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic comedy film, directed by Paul L. Stein, from a screenplay by Horace Jackson, based on a story by Robert Milton and Dorothy Cairns.

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Sing a Song of Six Pants

Sing a Song of Six Pants is a 1947 short film starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard).

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Sinners in Paradise

Sinners in Paradise is a 1938 American South Seas adventure film directed by James Whale.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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Smouldering Fires (film)

Smouldering Fires is a 1925 Universal silent drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante.

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Stanley Donen

Stanley Donen (born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are Singin' in the Rain and On the Town, both of which he co-directed with actor and dancer Gene Kelly.

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Stewart v. Abend

Stewart v. Abend, 495 U.S. 207 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that a successor copyright owner (one who obtains ownership later on, such as the heirs of a copyright owner who dies) has the exclusive right to permit the creation and exploitation of derivative works, regardless of potentially conflicting agreements by prior copyright holders.

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Suddenly (1954 film)

Suddenly is a 1954 American film noir crime film directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale.

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Superman (1940s cartoons)

The Fleischer Superman cartoons are a series of animated short films released in Technicolor by Paramount Pictures and based upon the comic book character Superman, making them his first animated appearance.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Swing High, Swing Low (film)

Swing High, Swing Low is a 1937 American romantic drama directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.

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Target for Today

Target for Today is a documentary film describing the preparation and mounting of a United States Army Air Forces raid on East Prussia It contains much combat footage of B-17 and B-24 bombers and named for the phrase used at briefings before air raids.

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Target Nevada (1951 film)

Target Nevada Special Film Project (S.F.P.) 281 (1951) is an instructional documentary short film produced by United States Air Force (USAF).

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Teenagers from Outer Space

Teenagers from Outer Space (a.k.a. The Gargon Terror (UK title), The Boy from Outer Space, and originally titled The Ray Gun Terror) is a 1959 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film released by Warner Bros. The film was produced, written, and directed by Tom Graeff and stars David Love, Dawn Bender, Bryan Grant, Harvey B. Dunn, Tom Graeff, and King Moody.

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That Justice Be Done

That Justice Be Done was a one-reel American propaganda film directed by George Stevens and made in 1945 by the Office of War Information for the US Chief of Counsel at Nuremberg and the War Crimes Office of the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Amazing Mr. X

The Amazing Mr.

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The Animal Kingdom

The Animal Kingdom (also known as The Woman in His House in the UK) is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith based upon a comedy of manners of the same name by Philip Barry.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Brain That Wouldn't Die

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die) is a 1962 American science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton.

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The Dance of Life

The Dance of Life (1929) is the first of three film adaptations of the popular Broadway play Burlesque, the others being Swing High, Swing Low (1937) and When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948).

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The Deadly Companions

The Deadly Companions is a 1961 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Steve Cochran, and Chill Wills.

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The Devil Bat

The Devil Bat is a 1940 black-and-white American horror film produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and directed by Jean Yarborough.

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The Driller Killer

The Driller Killer is a 1979 black comedy horror film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Ferrara (credited as Jimmy Laine), Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, and Harry Schultz.

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The Emperor Jones (1933 film)

The Emperor Jones is a 1933 American pre-Code film adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play of the same title, was made outside of the Hollywood studio system, financed with private money from neophyte wealthy producers, and directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, who had sought O'Neill's permission to film the play since its 1924 production in New York.

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The Fight for the Sky

The Fight for the Sky is a short propaganda film commissioned by the US government to highlight the victories of the Allied air forces over Europe prior to the Normandy invasion.

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The Filmgroup

The Filmgroup was a production and distribution company founded by filmmakers Roger Corman and Gene Corman in 1959.

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The Front Page

The Front Page is a hit Broadway comedy about tabloid newspaper reporters on the police beat, written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur which was first produced in 1928.

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The Front Page (1931 film)

The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien.

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The General (1926 film)

The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film released by United Artists.

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The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush is a 1925 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin.

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The Gorilla (1939 film)

The Gorilla is a 1939 American horror comedy film starring the Ritz Brothers, Anita Louise, Mohit Ranjan, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, and Patsy Kelly.

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The Great Flamarion

The Great Flamarion is a 1945 film noir mystery film directed by Anthony Mann starring Erich von Stroheim and Mary Beth Hughes.

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The Greatest Gift

The Greatest Gift is a 1943 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern which became the basis for the film It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

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The Hitch-Hiker

The Hitch-Hiker is a 1953 film noir directed by Ida Lupino, about two fishing buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker during a trip to Mexico.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923 film)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 American romantic drama film with horror elements starring Lon Chaney, directed by Wallace Worsley, and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg.

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The Inspector General (film)

The Inspector General is a 1949 Technicolor musical comedy film.

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The Jackie Robinson Story

The Jackie Robinson Story is a 1950 biographical film directed by Alfred E. Green (who had directed The Jolson Story, "one of the biggest hits of the 40s") and starring Jackie Robinson as himself.

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The Joe Louis Story

The Joe Louis Story is a 1953 film noir drama sport film directed by Robert Gordon and starring Coley Wallace, Hilda Silmms and Paul Stewart.

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The Lady Refuses

The Lady Refuses is a 1931 American pre-Code melodrama film, directed by George Archainbaud, from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based on an original story by Guy Bolton and Robert Milton.

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The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)

The Last Man on Earth (L'ultimo uomo della Terra) is a 1964 Italian-American science-fiction horror film based on the 1954 Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend.

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The Last Time I Saw Paris

For the 1942 book, see Elliot Paul. The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 Technicolor romantic drama made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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The Little Princess (1939 film)

The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang.

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The Little Shop of Horrors

The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American black comedy film directed by Roger Corman.

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The Lucky Texan

The Lucky Texan is a 1934 Lonestar Films B-movie Western film featuring John Wayne (five years before his breakthrough appearance in Stagecoach), Barbara Sheldon, Gabby Hayes, and the legendary stuntman and actor Yakima Canutt.

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The Man from Utah

The Man from Utah is a 1934 Pre-Code Western movie starring John Wayne, Polly Ann Young and the stuntman/actor Yakima Canutt.

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The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film with elements of film noir, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world.

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The Negro Soldier

The Negro Soldier is a 1944 documentary created by the United States Army during World War II.

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The New Three Stooges

The New Three Stooges is an American animated television series that ran from 1965 to 1966 starring the Three Stooges.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Outlaw

The Outlaw is a 1943 American Western film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, and Walter Huston.

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The Painted Hills

The Painted Hills, also known as Lassie's Adventures in the Goldrush, is a 1951 action film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and directed by Harold F. Kress.

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The Pay-Off

The Pay-Off is a 1930 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Lowell Sherman, who also starred in the film along with Marian Nixon and Hugh Trevor.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1925 film)

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel ''Le Fantôme de l'Opéra'', directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney, Sr. in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he "loves" a star.

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The Red House (film)

The Red House, also known as No Trespassing, is a 1947 film noir psychological thriller starring Edward G. Robinson.

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The Royal Bed

The Royal Bed is a 1931 American pre-Code satirical comedy film produced by William LeBaron and distributed through RKO.

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The Screaming Skull

The Screaming Skull is a 1958 independently made American black-and-white horror film, produced by John Kneubuhl, T. Frank Woods, and John Coots, directed by Alex Nicol, that stars John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, Tony Johnson, and Nicol.

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The Secret Hour (film)

The Secret Hour is a lost 1928 silent film romance drama directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Pola Negri.

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The Silver Horde (1930 film)

The Silver Horde is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Joel McCrea as a fisherman torn between two women, played by Evelyn Brent and Jean Arthur.

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 American Technicolor film based on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway.

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The Southerner (film)

The Southerner is a 1945 American film directed by Jean Renoir and based on the 1941 novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry.

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The Star Packer

The Star Packer is a 1934 Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt, and Verna Hillie.

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The Story of Film: An Odyssey

The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of over 900 minutes.

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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a film noir released in the United States in 1946, directed by Lewis Milestone from a screenplay written by Robert Rossen (and an uncredited Robert Riskin), based on the short story "Love Lies Bleeding" by playwright John "Jack" Patrick.

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The Stranger (1946 film)

The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles.

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The Terror (1963 film)

The Terror (1963) is a low-budget American NR Vistascope horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman about a French officer who finds an intriguing woman who is believed to be the ghost of the baron's long departed wife.

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The Truth About Charlie

The Truth About Charlie is a 2002 American-French film.

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The Wasp Woman

The Wasp Woman (a.k.a. The Bee Girl and Insect Woman) is a 1959 American black-and-white science fiction film, produced and directed by Roger Corman (who also has a cameo role in the film, playing a doctor), that stars Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Michael Mark, and Barboura Morris.

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They Knew What They Wanted (play)

They Knew What They Wanted is a 1924 play written by Sidney Howard.

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Three Guys Named Mike

Three Guys Named Mike is a 1951 American romantic comedy film directed by Charles Walters, starring Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Howard Keel, and Barry Sullivan.

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Till the Clouds Roll By

Till The Clouds Roll By is a 1946 American Technicolor musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Tom Graeff

Thomas Lockyear "Tom" Graeff (September 12, 1929 – December 19, 1970) was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, film editor and cinematographer.

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Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears is a 1949 film noir crime film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea and Arthur Kennedy.

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Topper Returns

Topper Returns (1941) is the third and final entry in the initial series of supernatural comedy films inspired by the novels of Thorne Smith.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Ubaldo Ragona

Ubaldo Ragona (Catania, 1 December 1916 – Rome, 15 August 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Copyright Office

The United States Copyright Office, a part of the Library of Congress, is the official U.S. government body that maintains records of copyright registration in the United States, including a Copyright Catalog.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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United States Office of War Information

The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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University Press of Kentucky

The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press.

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UPA (animation studio)

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio active from the 1940s through the 1970s.

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Vengeance Valley

Vengeance Valley is a 1951 American western film starring Burt Lancaster and based on the novel by Luke Short.

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Victor Hugo Halperin

Victor Hugo Halperin (August 24, 1895 in Chicago, Illinois – May 17, 1983 in Bentonville, Arkansas) was an American stage actor, stage director, film director, producer, and writer.

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Victor Sjöström

Victor David Sjöström (in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor.

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Vincente Minnelli

Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Gigi (1958), The Band Wagon (1953), and An American in Paris (1951).

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Visible Ink Press

Visible Ink Press, LLC is a publisher of popular reference works.

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Wallace Fox

Wallace Fox (9 March 1895 – 30 June 1958) was an American film director.

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Wallace Worsley

Wallace A. Worsley, Sr. (December 8, 1878 – March 26, 1944) was an American stage actor who became a film director in the silent era.

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Walter Lang

Walter Lang (August 10, 1896 – February 7, 1972) was an American film director.

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Walter Reade

Walter Reade Sr (1884–1952) was the man behind a chain of theatres which grew from a single theatre in Asbury Park, New Jersey to a chain of forty theatres and drive-ins in New Jersey, New York and neighboring states that lasted into the mid seventies.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros. Animation

Warner Bros.

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West of the Divide

West of the Divide is a 1934 American Western film directed by Robert N. Bradbury and starring John Wayne.

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White Zombie (film)

White Zombie is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film independently produced by Edward Halperin and directed by Victor Halperin.

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Why We Fight

Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the United States government during World War II to justify to U.S. soldiers their country's involvement in the war.

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William A. Wellman

William Augustus Wellman (February 29, 1896 – December 9, 1975) was an American film director notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation themes, a particular passion.

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William Castle

William Castle (April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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William Keighley

William Jackson Keighley (August 4, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 24, 1984, New York, New York) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director.

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Wings for This Man

Wings for this Man is a propaganda film produced in 1945 by the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first unit of African-American pilots in the US military formed during World War II.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Wives Under Suspicion

Wives Under Suspicion is a 1938 film noir crime film directed by James Whale, starring Warren William, Gail Patrick, Ralph Morgan, and Constance Moore, and released by Universal Pictures.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

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