So there is now a horror Oz film out. And....
Look, I know cheezy horror movies can be fun for the right audience. If ppl enjoy these public domain horror films, it shouldnt be my job to take that from you.
But also, is there --nothing-- else we can do with public domain stuff? ~Just~ horror? That's all we can do with this freedom? We can only take the sweet things, and turn them murderous? Can we not do more?
Illustration by Ernst Schneidler, from Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm (1919).
Source: University of Connecticut Libraries / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7ff72257-873f-42bb-809a-f44118421197
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Evening all
#Photo #Photography #Quebec #Canada #WikiCommons #PublicDomain
#Image attribution: Wilfredor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gare_fluviale_de_Qu%C3%A9bec,_Quebec_city,_Canada.jpg.
Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v1. Tab 74 (1731) by Mark Catesby.
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cacb60fb-cd08-4f6b-b0aa-ef16e4746964
Why Will You Die? Brian & Wilkinson (1885) by W. N. Bryant.
Source: SMU Central University Libraries / Flickr: The Commons
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6a6d5836-9951-49cf-b3ca-b7aeff6bafaa
#questions #advertisements #drugstores #communication #adverts #art #publicdomain
“The Diary of a Young Girl” is a Dutch language diary written by the young Jewish writer Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Although the diary and Anne Frank’s death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are well known, few are aware that the text has a complicated copyright history – one that could have […]
#advocateGeneral #anneFrank #circumvention #cjeu #eu #europeanCommission #foundations #geoblocks #infringement #intellectualMonopoly #litigation #netherlands #publicDomain #switzerland #vpns https://walledculture.org/copyright-litigation-over-anne-franks-writings-likely-to-impact-the-fate-of-vpns-in-the-eu/
Adolph Metzner, 1861–4.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/641ee179-309d-4a4c-b22d-3c32b9da3d06
#pencils #staffs #death #drawing #battles #war #art #publicdomain
RetroStrange TV is now streaming!
24/7 vintage sci-fi, horror, filmstrips, and ephemera
#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree
Well, on to the next one - maybe Faulkner now that As I Lay Dying is in the public domain, or Wuthering Heights to pair with the Robbie/Elordi joint.
#books #movies #publicdomain #standardebooks #wutheringheights
Self Portrait, Yawning (ca. 1783) by Joseph Ducreux.
Source: The Getty
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ba38fab8-99fc-42cf-b5f4-522a3dc408c3
Congrats to "GEORGIA" by Javier Estella, a Finalist in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🎬
A letter to the mother who is no longer here & left too soon. Based on a fragment of a home movie filmed in Georgia in 1930, accompanied by a cover of the 1930 composition "Georgia on My Mind," recorded for this piece.
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/georgia_202601
The arrival of the Englishmen in Virginia (1590) by Johann Theodor de Bry, from Briefe and True Report.
Source: Harvard University
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/3b6b815a-daac-402a-accd-de396e1ba3a5
#native-american #maps #exploration #ships #romans #islands #british-america #native-americans #sea-monsters #colonial-america #colonialism #shipwrecks #art #publicdomain
Creation (ca. 1330), from The Holkham Bible Picture Book.
Source: British Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/249950a7-f3e5-4b03-b990-dcfec48d317e
#halos #animals #manuscripts #nature #christianity #bible #plants #art #publicdomain
And yet more #PublicDomain books released from 'snippet view':
Annual Report of Registrar-General for England & Wales, 1912
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IRqapa1NTWIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Census of England & Wales, 1921: London Tables, pt. III.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sAeT-4xBaiIC&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Agriculture in Scotland: Report for 1973
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yzEHAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
And more #PublicDomain books I've got Google to release from 'snippet view':
Journals of the House of Lords:
vol 7 1644-5): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Z0zDguYRFpoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
vols 182-3 (1950): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7cl-HnoeeRMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
vol 208 pt 2 (1975): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eP84AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Portrait of a Man with Lions and Tigers (1870s) by Unknown.
Source: The Getty
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c4b92112-bda6-459e-9caa-2838880a6e52
The recording from our Public Domain Day virtual event is now available!
🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works just entered the public domain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks.
Watch the full recording ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright
#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #OpenCulture @AuthorsAlliance
Monthly portrait photos [4x] of Sean Patrick Myrick for 2026, February. Taken on 2026, Sunday, February 8th.
#portrait #representation #media #images #photos #selfies #representation #seanpm2001 #seanpm2001mediagallery #seanpm2001portrait #publicdomain #february
Congrats to THE BOOTS ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Thomas Biamonte,
Honorable Mention, Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅
This anti-war short draws from 1930 Best Picture winner All Quiet on the Western Front, paired with a reading of Rudyard Kipling’s 1903 poem “Boots.”
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/all-quiet
Willow mallow seed (1764–8) by Martin Frobenius Ledermüller, from Mikroskopische Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung.
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/166491c7-95b3-43df-b10d-853cdcbc0a79
#micrography #insects #microscopes #entomology #biology #radial #seeds #circular #art #publicdomain
