Public Reel

WHIRLWIND

A postal inspector stops the activities of a frontier crime syndicate. Credits: Producer, Armand Schaefer; director, John English; screenplay, Norman S. Hall; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Paul Borofsky. Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, Thurston Hall, Harry Lauter

Registration LP863 Renewed

Term began
1951-04-27
Claimant
Gene Autry Productions
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE22538 filed 1979-02-23 by Gene Autry Productions (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6920021)
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 RE22538 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Gene Autry Productions (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-02-23
Original cited
LP863 / 1951-04-27
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6920021: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE22538, registered 1979-02-23, for original registration LP863 published 1951-04-27.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1951, Internet Archive catalogofcopyri351213libr (OCR text), lines 21370–21382.

Summary: A Western. A postal inspector 
stops the activities of a frontier crime 
syndicate. 

Credits: Producer, Armand Schaefer; 
director, John English; screenplay, Norman 
S. Hall; music director, Mischa Bakaleini- 
koff; film editor, Paul Borofsky. Cast: 
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Gail Davis, 
Thurston Hall, Harry Lauter. 

© Gene Autry Productions; 27Apr51; 
LP863. 

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