So, Stanley Kubrick's first feature-length film, FEAR AND DESIRE (1952), is in the public domain. Why? Because after it was released, he hated it so, he tried to destroy every copy, and never renewed copyright because he thought it was erased from history.
But copies survived, and now it's on Youtube. đ
I just watched it. It's peculiar. đ Kubrick just can't do "normal" humans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjJzQvjhndw
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