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Welcoming 1927 to the Public Domain

   Posted on [18]January 1, 2023 by [19]Alexis Rossi

   This year we are welcoming works from 1927 into the public domain in
   the United States, including [20]books, [21]periodicals, [22]sheet
   music, and [23]movies.

   Big events of 1927 include the first transatlantic phone call from New
   York to London, the formation of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
   Sciences, the first successful long distance demonstration of
   television, the release of the first popular "talkie," [24]The Jazz
   Singer, and the first nonstop transatlantic solo airplane flight, from
   New York to Paris, by Charles Lindbergh.

Movies

   Despite the popularity of The Jazz Singer, movies were still mostly
   silent in 1927, including the gorgeous [25]Metropolis by Fritz Lang.
   Laurel and Hardy's first film, [26]Putting Pants on Phillip, was
   released that year, along with an early Gary Cooper Western,
   [27]Nevada, Joan Crawford in [28]Spring Fever, Mary Pickford in [29]My
   Best Girl, Clara Bow in [30]Get Your Man, and Cecil B. DeMille's
   [31]King of Kings.

   I was particularly taken with [32]No Man's Land, which gives top
   billing to a horse ([33]Rex the Wonder Horse, in case you were
   wondering - if you'd like to follow his career he also starred in
   [34]The King of Wild Horses and [35]Black Cyclone).

   Or we can time travel with Koko the Clown in [36]Koko in 1999 where
   they apparently thought that at the turn of the last century everything
   would happen via automation and you'd get a wife from a vending machine
   for 25 cents.

   IFRAME: [37]https://archive.org/embed/koko-in-1999_1927

Music

   No new recorded music enters the public domain in the US this year --
   the next group of recorded music becomes available in 4 years, due to
   how the music modernization act is written -- but we do have some fun
   new [38]sheet music to explore. The biggies that are most remembered
   today are probably [39]The Best Things in Life Are Free and [40]I
   Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream. But you should also
   take some time to play [41]Dream Kisses, [42]The Desert Song, [43]My
   Ohio Home, and [44]Girl of My Dreams.

Periodicals

   Thousands of issues of [45]periodicals from 1927 are entering the
   public domain, some from titles that are still well known today like:
     * [46]Life
     * [47]Vogue
     * [48]The Billboard
     * [49]Cosmopolitan
     * [50]The Saturday Evening Post
     * [51]The Progressive Farmer
     * [52]The New Yorker

   You may also want to check out copies of [53]The American Girl
   (published by the Girl Scouts), check up on the financial markets
   leading up to the Great Depression in the [54]The Financial Times, or
   research bling in [55]The Jewelers Circular.

Books

   The Sherlock Holmes books came to an end in 1927, and with it the
   release of The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan-Doyle ([56]vol
   I and [57]vol II). Other biggies include [58]Death Comes for the
   Archbishop by Willa Cather and [59]Mosquitoes by William Faulkner.

   But as always, the most fun is to be had perusing the [60]books from
   1927 for hidden gems. Enjoy the gorgeous art deco designs in [61]Ideas
   & studies in stencilling & decorating, for instance.

   Some other fun titles include
     * [62]Insect-musicians and cricket champions of China
     * [63]Aunt Sammy's radio recipes
     * [64]Distinctive houses of Indiana limestone
     * [65]Complete history of southern Illinois' gang war
     * [66]The home movie scenario book

Celebrate Public Domain Day

   You can join us to [67]celebrate public domain day two ways this year,
   virtually or in person.

   We are having a virtual party on January 19, 2023 at 1pm Pacific/4pm
   Eastern. REGISTER FOR THE VIRTUAL EVENT [68]HERE!

   And the next day we will have an in-person Film Remix Contest Screening
   Party on January 20, 2023 at 6pm at 300 Funston Ave in San Francisco,
   to watch this year's Public Domain Day [69]Remix Contest winning
   entries. REGISTER FOR THE IN-PERSON PARTY IN SAN FRANCISCO [70]HERE!

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