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Library Holdings For 2025 Public Domain Material: Films

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  1. What is Public Domain?
  2. Public Domain Material at NYU Libraries
    1. Print Books
    2. Electronic Access
    3. Films
    4. Musical Compositions (Scores)
    5. Sound Recordings
    6. References

Films (On DVD)

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

  • Digital version of continuity script

The Broadway Melody directed by Harry Beaumont

  • Digital archival version of the 1929 screenplay with handwritten annotations

The Coconauts directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley

  • Film Still

Die Büchse der Pandora : Variationen auf das Thema Frank Wedekinds Lulu = Pandora's box : variations on the theme of Frank Wedekind's Lulu directed by G.W. Pabst

Edna Ferber’s Show Boat directed by James Whale

The Gallopin’ Gaucho directed by Walt Disney

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

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

The Karnival Kid directed by Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse’s first talking appearance)

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

Say it With Songs directed by Lloyd Bacon

The Skeleton Dance directed by Walt Disney

Spite Marriage directed by Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton

  • Film Still (1)
  • Film Still (2)

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

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