Public Reel

DEAD MAN'S TRAIL

capture the outlaws and recover a large sum of stolen money. Credits: Producer, Vincent M. Fennelly; director, Lewis Collins; story and screenplay, Joseph F. Poland; music, Raoul Kraushaar; film editor, Sam Fields. Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Barbara Allen, Stanford Jolley, Lane Bradford

Registration LP1797 Renewed

Term began
1952-06-22
Claimant
Monogram Pictures Corp
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE51569 filed 1980-02-04 by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, formerly Monogram Pictures Corporation (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6949045)
Enters the public domain
1 January 2048 (95 years from the 1952 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 RE51569 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, formerly Monogram Pictures Corporation (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-02-04
Original cited
LP1797 / 1952-06-22
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6949045: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE51569, registered 1980-02-04, for original registration LP1797 published 1952-06-22.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1952, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig361213lib (OCR text), lines 3948–3959.

capture the outlaws and recover a large 
sum of stolen money. 

Credits: Producer, Vincent M. Fennelly; 
director, Lewis Collins; story and screen- 
play, Joseph F. Poland; music, Raoul 
Kraushaar; film editor, Sam Fields. Cast: 
Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Bar- 
bara Allen, Stanford Jolley, Lane Bradford. 

© Monogram Pictures Corp.; 22Jun52; 
LP1797. 

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