Dementia 13 (1963)

Francis Ford Coppola, William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee · 1963 · 75 min

Corman handed a young Francis Ford Coppola some leftover money and an Irish castle and told him to make something Psycho-shaped. What came back has an axe murderer, a drowned child, a family that will not discuss it, and a real feel for dread that a nine-day schedule has no business producing. It is an apprentice work and never pretends otherwise — but the apprentice went on to make The Godfather, and the eye is already there.

Chosen print (2026-08-17): Archive.org item dementia-13-1963_202312, file Dementia 13 (1963).mp4 — 0.46 GB, 854x480, 74.9 min.

Picked out of 74 examined items by runtime: 74.9 minutes against the catalog's 75, exact. Also examined and rejected: a 1792x1072 copy running 68.7 minutes — the wrong cut at HD dimensions, which on a title with a commercial 2017 restoration is precisely the laundering profile.

Selected from our vetted candidate queue after the automated reject rules and the owner eye-pass. Torrent generated from this exact file on 2026-08-17; that torrent is what the swarm carries.

Public domain by long-standing distribution consensus: published 1963, renewal required in the 28th year and by all accounts never filed. Published 1963 — the last cohort still required to renew (the 1992 automatic-renewal amendment covers 1964 on, and this film missed it by a year). The renewal window (1990–91) falls in the Copyright Office's post-1977 online records rather than the scanned CCE volumes, so the online renewal search is the named remaining verification step before the torrent publishes.