[1] [Note 1] First Steps, directed by Leo Seltzer, won the Documentary Short Subject Oscar at the 20th Academy Awards in 1948 for the United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education.

Specialists set up a training program designed to give the children practice in the handling of toys, hobby materials, tools and utensils.

First Steps was filmed in a summer camp in New York State by Frederic House Inc. under the supervision of the United Nations Department of Public Information.

The occupational therapists introduced different techniques of physiotherapy, taking into account their minds and emotions in addition to their bodies.

[4][5] The United Nations Division of Films and Visual Education won the Documentary Short Subject Oscar for First Steps at the 20th Academy Awards in 1948.