Public Reel

THE BLACK HAT

THE BLACK HAT. Apex Film Corp., 1950. 25 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for television. Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, George B. Seitz, Jr.; screenplay, Herb Meadow; film editor, Everett Dodd

Registration LP646 Renewed

Term began
1950-05-18
Claimant
The Lone Ranger, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE11285 filed 1978-11-20 by Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6908768)
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 RE11285 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1978-11-20
Original cited
LP646 / 1950-05-18
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6908768: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE11285, registered 1978-11-20, for original registration LP646 published 1950-05-18.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 2123–2134.

THE BLACK HAT. Apex Film Corp., 1950. 
25 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. 

Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for 
television. 

Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; direc- 
tor, George B. Seitz, Jr.; screenplay, Herb 
Meadow; film editor, Everett Dodd. 

© The Lone Ranger, Inc.; 18Mays0; 
LP646, 

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