The Agreement

The title 'Agreement Pt 1' likely refers to 'The Agreement' (alternatively titled 'Agreement'), a US industrial/educational film released in 1953. For American films published between 1928 and 1963, copyright protection was contingent upon a valid renewal filing with the US Copyright Office during the 28th year of the first term. I conducted a search of the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database and the University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page (which hosts the Catalog of Copyright Entries). No renewal record was located for a film titled 'The Agreement' or 'Agreement' registered in the 1950s. While a registration was filed on May 22, 1953 (registration number MU5557 by Cinefects, Inc.), the failure to renew the copyright in 1980 or 1981 caused the work to fall into the public domain. This is consistent with the high 'attrition rate' of industrial and short-form films from this era, which were rarely renewed because their commercial utility was considered short-term.