THE FIRST STEP
THE FIRST STEP. Family Films, 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm, Credits: Screenplay, Arthur St. Claire
Registration LP3634 No renewal found
- Term began
- 1950-08-16
- Claimant
- Family Films, inc
- Class
- LP — published photoplay (numbering series begun Jan. 1950)
- Finding
- no renewal entry found for 1977-1979 in the CCE motion-picture renewal sections or in the Copyright Office renewal records 1978-2025
- In the public domain since
- 1 January 1979 (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 1977 or 1978 volume; volumes searched: 1977, 1978, 1979.
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 LP3634.
Catalog entry
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, 1954, Internet Archive catalogofcopyrig381213lib (OCR text), lines 4328–4333.
THE FIRST STEP. Family Films, 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm, Credits: Screenplay, Arthur St. Claire. © Family Films, inc.; 16Aug50; LP3634,
Copies on the Internet Archive
Searched on 5 September 2026; no item with this title and year was found.