Public Reel

TEXANS NEVER CRY

ut the capture of a gang of counterfeiters by a sergeant in the Texas Rangers. Credits: Producer, Armand Schaefer; director, Frank McDonald; screenplay, Norman S. Hall; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, James Sweeney. Cast: Gene Autry, Champion, Pat Buttram, Mary Castle, Russ Hayden

Registration LP780 Renewed

Term began
1951-03-13
Claimant
Gene Autry Productions
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE22536 filed 1979-02-23 by Gene Autry Productions (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6920019)
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 RE22536 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Gene Autry Productions (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-02-23
Original cited
LP780 / 1951-03-13
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6920019: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE22536, registered 1979-02-23, for original registration LP780 published 1951-03-13.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 18633–18645.

Summary: A Western about the capture 
of a gang of counterfeiters by a sergeant 
in the Texas Rangers. 

Credits: Producer, Armand Schaefer; 
director, Frank McDonald; screenplay, 
Norman S. Hall; music director, Mischa 
Bakaleinikoff; film editor, James Sweeney. 
Cast: Gene Autry, Champion, Pat Buttram, 
Mary Castle, Russ Hayden. 

© Gene Autry Productions; 13Mar51; 
LP780. 

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