Public Reel

WAR HORSE

WAR HORSE. Apex Film Corp., 1949. 25 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on the radio script ''The White Buffalo" by Lee Smits. Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for television, Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, George B. Seitz, Jr.; screenplay, Gibson Fox; editor, Axel Hubert

Registration LP245 No renewal found

Term began
1949-10-20
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)

An automated finding, not a verdict. 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 our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one.

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.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP245.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1950, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri341213libr (OCR text), lines 48767–48780.

WAR HORSE. Apex Film Corp., 1949. 
25 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on the 
radio script ''The White Buffalo" by Lee 
Smits. 

Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for 
television, 

Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; 
director, George B. Seitz, Jr.; screenplay, 
Gibson Fox; editor, Axel Hubert. 

© The Lone Ranger, Inc.; 200ct49; 
LP245, 

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