Public Reel

THE PLEDGE

television western featuring the Lone Ranger. Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, John H. Morse; based on a radio play by Ralph Goll; teleplay, Curtis Kenyon; editor, Everett Dodd. Cast: John Hart, Jay Silverheels, Hayden Rorke. Appl. author: Jack Chertok Productions, inc., employer for hire

Registration LP2376 Renewed

Term began
1952-11-27
Claimant
The Lone Ranger, inc
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
renewal RE73149 filed 1980-12-01 by Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (number+date; Copyright Office public records dataset, record 6970625)
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 RE73149 (link: number+date, title similarity 1.00)

Renewal claimant
Lone Ranger Television, Inc. (PWH)
Renewal date
1980-12-01
Original cited
LP2376 / 1952-11-27
Source
U.S. Copyright Office public records dataset (renewals registered 1978–2025, January 2026 release), control number 6970625: record in the Copyright Public Records System

Structured record, not OCR: renewal number RE73149, registered 1980-12-01, for original registration LP2376 published 1952-11-27.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1953, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig371213lib (OCR text), lines 16375–16387.

Summary: A television western featuring 
the Lone Ranger. 

Credits: Producer, Jack Chertok; director, 
John H. Morse; based on a radio play by 
Ralph Goll; teleplay, Curtis Kenyon; editor, 
Everett Dodd. Cast: John Hart, Jay Silver- 
heels, Hayden Rorke. 

Appl. author: Jack Chertok Productions, 
inc., employer for hire. 

© The Lone Ranger, inc.; 27Nov52; LP2376. 

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