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BURIED TREASURE

BURIED TREASURE. Apex Film Corp., 1950. 26 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on a radio script by Felix Holt. Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for television. Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, George Archainbaud; screenplay, Tom Seller; film editor, Frank Capacchione

Registration LP527 Renewed

Term began
1950-03-02
Claimant
The Lone Ranger, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE11277 filed 1978-11-20 by Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6908760)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2046 (95 years from the 1950 publication)

A renewal registration for this work was found. The renewed term lasts 95 years from the original date, so the work remains under copyright.

Renewal RE11277 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1978-11-20
Original cited
LP527 / 1950-03-02
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6908760: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE11277, registered 1978-11-20, for original registration LP527 published 1950-03-02.

Renewal R624574 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc (PWH)
Renewal date
1976-01-23
Original cited
11471 / 2Fek48
Source
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Motion Pictures, 1976: Internet Archive 1976motionpictur3301213libr, OCR text line 53347
R624574. 
Buried treasure. By Columbia Pictures 
Corpceration. (Brick Bradford, chap. 8) 
€ 2Fek48; 11471. Columbia Pictures 
Industries, Inc. (PWH); 23Jan76; 
R624574. 
R624575. 

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 32475–32486.

BURIED TREASURE. Apex Film Corp., 1950. 
26 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on a radio 
script by Felix Holt. 

Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for 
television. 

Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; 
director, George Archainbaud; screenplay, 
Tom Seller; film editor, Frank Capacchione. 

© The Lone Ranger, Inc.; 2Mar50; LP527. 

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