Public Reel

BORDER CITY AFFAIR

1953. 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Summary: A Range Rider western for television. Credits: Producer, Hugh McCollum; director, Frank McDonald; screenplay, Norman S. Hall; music score, Walter Greene; music supervisor, Irving Friedman; film editor, Jack Wheeler. Cast: Jack Mahoney, Dick Jones, Jean Willis

Registration LP2410 No renewal found

Term began
1953-03-16
Claimant
Range Rider Productions
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1980-1982 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1982 (end of the 28th year, no renewal)

A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and no matching renewal was found. A work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year.

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Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 2597–2610.

ductions, 1953. 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. 

Summary: A Range Rider western for 
television. 

Credits: Producer, Hugh McCollum; direc- 
tor, Frank McDonald; screenplay, Norman S. 
Hall; music score, Walter Greene; music 
supervisor, Irving Friedman; film editor, 
Jack Wheeler. Cast: Jack Mahoney, Dick 
Jones, Jean Willis. 

© Range Rider Productions; 16Mar53; 
LP2410. 

Copies on the Internet Archive

ItemYearDownloadsCollection
''Range Rider'' - Border City Affair19531,170classic_tv_1950s, classic_tv

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