2025 Public Domain films

[GlacierTuba]

Tomorrow will see a whole bunch of material become public domain from 1929.

Notable films that will become PD are:

A dozen more Mickey Mouse animations (including Mickey’s first talking appearance in The Karnival Kid)

The Cocoanuts, directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley (the first Marx Brothers feature film)

The Broadway Melody, directed by Harry Beaumont (winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture)

The Hollywood Revue of 1929, directed by Charles Reisner (featuring the song “Singin’ in the Rain”)

The Skeleton Dance, directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks (the first Silly Symphony short from Disney)

Blackmail, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock’s first sound film)

Hallelujah, directed by King Vidor (one of the first film from a major studio with an all African-American cast)

The Wild Party, directed by Dorothy Arzner (Clara Bow’s first “talkie”)

Welcome Danger, directed by Clyde Bruckman and Malcolm St. Clair (the first full-sound comedy starring Harold Lloyd)

On With the Show, directed by Alan Crosland (the first all-talking, all-color, feature-length film)

Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora), directed by G.W. Pabst

Show Boat, directed by Harry A. Pollard (adaptation of the novel and musical)

The Black Watch, directed by John Ford (Ford’s first sound film)

Spite Marriage, directed by Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton (Keaton’s final silent feature)

Say It with Songs, directed by Lloyd Bacon (follow-up to The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool)

Dynamite, directed by Cecil B. DeMille (DeMille's first sound film)

Gold Diggers of Broadway, directed Roy Del Ruth

Lots of other material will become PD tomorrow too, including books and comics.

The above list is from the following page:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

[bigrob]

can't wait for the micro budget horror remakes of all of these