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, Wild Bill Hickok encounters a bungling sentry who becomes his partner in later adventures in the West. Credits: Producer, Wesley Barry; director, Thomas Carr; screenplay, Melvin Levy, Maurice Tombragel; music director, Edward J. Kay; editor, Ace Herman. Cast: Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Murray Alper

Registration LP2216 Renewed

Term began
1951-12-15
Claimant
William F. Broidy Productions, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE23399 filed 1979-03-26 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (title+window; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6920882)
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 RE23399 (link: title+window, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1979-03-26
Original cited
LP26953 / 1951-04-15
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6920882: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE23399, registered 1979-03-26, for original registration LP26953 published 1951-04-15.

Low confidence: neither the number nor the date in this record could be read; the title alone matched, and it is the only such title in the renewal window.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 2118–2129.

ties for the Union Army, Wild Bill Hickok 
encounters a bungling sentry who becomes 
his partner in later adventures in the West. 

Credits: Producer, Wesley Barry; direc- 
tor, Thomas Carr; screenplay, Melvin Levy, 
Maurice Tombragel; music director, Edward 
J. Kay; editor, Ace Herman. Cast: Guy 
Madison, Andy Devine, Murray Alper. 

© William F. Broidy Productions, inc.; 
15Dec51 (in notice: 1952); LP2216. 

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