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Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025

Celebrate the public domain with the Internet Archive in the following ways: - Register for our Public Domain Day celebrations on January 22 – both virtual and in-person. - Submit a short film to our Public Domain Film Remix contest.

While not at the same blockbuster level as 2024 with Steamboat Willie ’s passage into the public domain, works from 1929 still inhabit strong cultural significance today. He speaks his first words in The Karnival Kid, he wears gloves for the first time in The Opry House, and Ub Iwerks leaves the studio at year’s end with Wild Waves. Musical films were everywhere with The Broadway Melody winning the second ever Best Picture award at the Oscars, The Hollywood Revue introducing the world to “Singin’ in the Rain”, and the Marx Brothers making their big screen debut with The Cocoanuts.

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