Public Reel

LETTER OF THE LAW

LETTER OF THE LAW. Apex Film Corp., 1951. 25 min., sd., b&w, 16mm, Based on a radio script by Ralph Goll. Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for television. Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, John H. Morse; screenplay, Curtis Kenyon; film editor, Frank Capacchione

Registration LP743 Renewed

Term began
1951-01-04
Claimant
The Lone Ranger, Inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE11257 filed 1978-11-20 by Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6908740)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2047 (95 years from the 1951 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 RE11257 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1978-11-20
Original cited
LP743 / 1951-01-04
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6908740: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE11257, registered 1978-11-20, for original registration LP743 published 1951-01-04.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 9746–9758.

LETTER OF THE LAW. Apex Film Corp., 
1951. 25 min., sd., b&w, 16mm, Based 
on a radio script by Ralph Goll. 

Summary: A Lone Ranger Western for 
television. 

Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, 
John H. Morse; screenplay, Curtis Kenyon; 
film editor, Frank Capacchione. 

© The Lone Ranger, Inc.; 4Jan51 (in 
notice: 1950); LP743. 

Copies on the Internet Archive

Not searched yet.

Search the Internet Archive yourself · JSON