Public Reel

TALES OF WELLS FARGO

Shotgun messenger

Registration LP11715 No renewal found

Term began
1957-05-05
Claimant
Overland Productions
Class
LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
Finding
no renewal entry found for 1984-1986 or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
In the public domain since
1 January 1986 (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.

A renewal had to be filed in the 28th year and would be listed in the 1984 or 1985 volume; volumes searched: 1984, 1985, 1986.

The renewal sections are OCR text of printed volumes; a damaged record can hide a renewal. Before relying on this, search the linked volumes yourself for the title and for number LP11715.

Catalog entry

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1958, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig3121213li (OCR text), lines 42221–42222.

Shotgun messenger. © 5May57; 
LP11715. 

Copies on the Internet Archive

ItemYearDownloadsCollection
Tales Of Wells Fargo195720,593opensource_movies, community
Tales of Wells Fargo1957934movie_trailers_unsorted, movie_trailers

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