The recent announcement of from the New York Public Library on its results in identifying books published in the USA that are now in the public domain, inspired me to update the scripts I use to track down movies that are in the public domain. This involved updating the script used to extract lists of movies believed to be in the public domain, to work with the latest version of the source web sites. In particular the new edition of the Retro Film Vault web site now seem to list all the films available from that distributor, bringing the films identified there to more than 12.000 movies, and I was able to connect 46% of these to IMDB titles.
The new total is 16307 IMDB IDs (aka films) in the public domain or creative commons licensed, and unknown status for 31460 movies (possibly duplicates of the 16307).
The complete data set is available from a public git repository, including the scripts used to create it.
Anyway, this is the summary of the 28 collected data sources so far:
2361 entries ( 50 unique) with and 22472 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-search.json 2363 entries ( 146 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-archive-org-wikidata.json 299 entries ( 32 unique) with and 93 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-cinemovies.json 88 entries ( 52 unique) with and 36 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-creative-commons.json 3190 entries ( 1532 unique) with and 13 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-fesfilm-xls.json 620 entries ( 24 unique) with and 283 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-fesfilm.json 1080 entries ( 165 unique) with and 651 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-filmchest-com.json 830 entries ( 13 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-icheckmovies-archive-mochard.json 19 entries ( 19 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-gb.json 7410 entries ( 7101 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-c-expired-us.json 1205 entries ( 41 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-imdb-pd.json 163 entries ( 22 unique) with and 88 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-infodigi-pd.json 158 entries ( 103 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-looney-tunes.json 113 entries ( 4 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-pd.json 182 entries ( 71 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-letterboxd-silent.json 248 entries ( 85 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-manual.json 158 entries ( 4 unique) with and 64 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-mubi.json 85 entries ( 1 unique) with and 23 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-openflix.json 520 entries ( 22 unique) with and 244 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-profilms-pd.json 343 entries ( 14 unique) with and 10 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-info.json 701 entries ( 16 unique) with and 560 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainmovies-net.json 74 entries ( 13 unique) with and 60 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomainreview.json 698 entries ( 16 unique) with and 118 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-publicdomaintorrents.json 5506 entries ( 2941 unique) with and 6585 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-retrofilmvault.json 16 entries ( 0 unique) with and 0 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-thehillproductions.json 110 entries ( 2 unique) with and 29 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-two-movies-net.json 73 entries ( 20 unique) with and 131 without IMDB title ID in free-movies-vodo.json 16307 unique IMDB title IDs in total, 12509 only in one list, 31460 without IMDB title ID
New this time is a list of all the identified IMDB titles, with title, year and running time, provided in free-complete.json. this file also indiciate which source is used to conclude the video is free to distribute.
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