The film looks like fun. Yes, MT stories published before 1923, as was The Stolen White Elephant, are PD. This is the way the Bancroft folks phrase their paragraph about their costs and the licensing revenues , which seems fine to me: "The scholarly and technological work of the Mark Twain Project and Mark Twain Project Online is costly. Revenues from licensing benefit the Mark Twain Foundation, which in turn makes annual grants to organizations that promote the study of Mark Twain and his time, including the Mark Twain Papers and the Mark Twain publishing program of the University of California Press." http://www.marktwainproject.org/copyright.shtml Also provided at that link is a contact name and address for the Foundation: To write to the Mark Twain Foundation: Richard A. Watson Chamberlain, Willi, Ouchterloney, & Watson 575 Eighth Avenue, 16th Floor New York, NY 10018 DDD