RIM OF THE CANYON

serving twenty-year sentences, meet their death when they return to a western ghost town for a cache of stolen money. Credits: Producer, Armand Schaeffer; director, John English; screenplay, John K. Butler; film editor, Aaron Stell. Cast: Gene Autry, Nan Leslie, Walter Sande, Jocko Mahoney, Champion

Registration LP2440 No renewal found

Term began

1949-07-26

Claimant

Gene Autry Productions

Class

LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun 1946)

Finding

no renewal entry found for 1976-1978 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025

In the public domain since

1 January 1978 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1976 or 1977 volume; volumes searched: 1976, 1977, 1978.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1949, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri331213libr (OCR text), lines 35169–35181.

from prison after serving twenty-year 
sentences, meet their death when they 
return to a western ghost town for a cache 
of stolen money. 

Credits: Producer, Armand Schaeffer; 
director, John English; screenplay, John 
K. Butler; film editor, Aaron Stell. Cast: 
Gene Autry, Nan Leslie, Walter Sande, 
Jocko Mahoney, Champion. 

© Gene Autry Productions; 26Jul49; 
LP2440. 

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