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THE RETURN OF THE CONVICT

ter Graves, Frank Fenton, Ralph Sanford, George Stern. © Ventura Pictures Corp.; 15Nov50; "Western Vengeance," by Gibson Fox. Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for television. Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, George Archainbaud; screenplay, Gibson Fox, Doris Schroeder; film editor, Ben Marmon

Registration LP395 No renewal found

Term began
1949-12-01
Claimant
The Lone Ranger, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
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.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 44443–44460.

Peter Graves, Frank Fenton, Ralph Sanford, 
George Stern. 

© Ventura Pictures Corp.; 15Nov50; 


"Western Vengeance," by Gibson Fox. 

Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for 
television. 

Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; 
director, George Archainbaud; screen- 
play, Gibson Fox, Doris Schroeder; film 
editor, Ben Marmon, 

© The Lone Ranger, Inc.; 1Dec49; 
LP395. 

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