As we have discussed before, January 1 brings a new year and a new crop of copyrighted works entering into the public domain. This year, works from 1924 become available. We wish you a wonderful, fulfilling new year with lots of great works to build on!
A few of my favorites:
All these shorts and feature films (mostly silent), including:
- Movies
- Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. and The Navigator
- Songs
- “How Come You Do Me Like You Do?”
- “It Had to Be You”
- “Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?”
- George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” (The one everyone knows within 5 notes even if you don’t know the name)
- Literature
- Edgar Rice Burroughs’s The Land That Time Forgot and Tarzan and the Ant Men
- Agatha Christie’s The Man in the Brown Suit and Poirot Investigates
- E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India
- H. P. Lovecraft’s short story “The Rats in the Walls” (Ugh. Still makes me shudder!)
- Artwork
- Edward Hopper’s New York Pavements
- Wassily Kandinsky’s Contrasting Sounds (see above)
- Paul Klee’s Carnival in the Mountains
- Man Ray’s Le Violon d’Ingres
May this list inspire you to seek new and exciting adventures in 2020. We can’t wait to see what you create!