#412 - The Beauty of the Public Domain

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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We discuss the public domain and focus in on three films that went into it this year: THE COCOANUTS, HALLELUJAH and BLACKMAIL. Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us).

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Justin the Clue and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:07.7	And you're listening to the Important Cinema Club, Public Domain Edition.
0:11.7	For many years, nothing went into the public domain in the United States.
0:16.6	Criminal. Criminals in the United States.
0:19.0	Yeah. Thanks to the lobbying of companies like Disney. Mostly Disney. Because it was so important to make sure that Mickey Mouse didn't fall into the public. You know what's so funny about that is like no one cares about Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse sucks. I mean, wait, okay. I'm sorry. I like the idea of Mickey Mouse, but it's not like he has any like culturally important work that can't be, you know, how dare it be exploited.
0:41.6	Oh, I'm sorry, there's not enough parodies of Mickey Mouse out there.
0:44.7	Like, it's endless.
0:45.9	Yeah.
0:46.8	Apologies, folks.
0:47.6	I'm sure there are some Mickey fans out there.
0:50.0	He has some culturally important works.
0:51.7	Woo-hoo.
0:52.3	The band concert.
0:54.1	You remember that one?
0:54.7	No, what's that?
0:55.7	Okay, you haven't explored the Mickey Cannon. No. A couple of years ago, things started going into the public domain again. Thank God. In fact, Steamboat Willie himself is in the public domain. Oh, and man, there's chaos in the streets, right? No, no one cares. And that's why every year there's a new like Winnie the Pooh, blood and honey.
1:14.1	Yes.
1:14.6	Steamboat. the streets, right? No, no one cares. And that's why every year there's a new, like,
1:12.3	Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey. Yes. Steamboat Willie Massacre. And that's just completely
1:18.1	drowning out the original great works. No, it's not. No one cares. And it's funny with stuff
1:23.5	going into the public domain because it's just the 1928 version well and now the 1929
1:28.1	version this is the first year that mickey mouse's speaking voice went into the public domain
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