Talk:Alfred Hitchcock filmography

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[edit] Public Domain

The article is extremely misleading -- how can Vertigo and Psycho be in the Public Domain? US Copyright reassertion for almost all of Hitchcock's British Films can be found here. I've removed PD "*"s for all films were there is evidence that the film is not in the Public Domain. Davepattern (talk) 06:56, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

  • I marked public domain into these movies:
  1. Screen shots are available in Wikimedia Commons.
  2. Quotes are available in Wikiquote.
  3. Movie is available in Internet Archive.
  • If copyright is till available, these are illegal. Are these wrong? Mikomaid (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 02:05, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
If the transfers used in the Internet Archive are unlicensed, then they probably shouldn't be there. Before the US restored copyright on non-US works that were deemed to the in the Public Domain in the US, it may have been permissible to add them to the Internet Archive. However, they should have been removed after US rights were restored in 1997. Ultimately it's up to the rights holders to pursue breaches of copyright, but Wikipedia should not state that films are in the US Public Domain when there is evidence that they are not. Davepattern (talk) 09:32, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] now released episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Scorcerer's Apprentice" (1961), see Diana Dors, not released for decades but now available on DVD. Reference from DD - Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (Reynolds & Hearn Books) (third edition) 2007. Also listed at List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes. SmithBlue (talk) 09:26, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spellbound

The film certainly isn't in the "Public Domain" -- the rights are currently owned by Disney/Buena Vista. The Criterion DVD was officially licensed from Disney/Buena Vista, but they then withdrew the license as MGM wanted to include the title in a planned box set (hence the Criterion suddenly went "out of print" and became a collector's item). The MGM box set was shelved when Sony acquired the company. Davepattern (talk) 09:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Ooops!! What's vary of DVD packages here[1].Mikomaid (talk) 01:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] films from the 1940s

Some of the rights holder entries for the 1940 films look incorrect (or incomplete) -- I'm pretty sure Disney/Beuna Vista own the US rights to the 4 Selznick films (via their aquisition of ABC catalogue, which had previously aquired many of the Selznick films). Davepattern (talk) 10:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I couldn't find any information about this matter. Do you have some? Caiaffa (talk) 15:41, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
I found Shadow of a Doubt and Stage Fright in Internet Archive. What are these?Mikomaid (talk) 01:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
This site confirms the public domain of Stage Fright with Creative Commons license but Shadow of a Doubt article doesn't mentions nothing about ©. The site is a public site that everyone can contribute, the information may came from here (Wiki). It will be better a more "oficial" information. Caiaffa (talk) 04:37, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
I found here. In Region-2-PAL(Europe), Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Mr & Mrs Smith, Suspicion, Spellbound, Notorious, etc. are issued by multi DVD publishers in a region. If not public domain, what are these? Mikomaid (talk) 12:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)