Quebec Canada-1952: A Monkey Is Tied Up With A Chain Around Its Neck

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationQuebec, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Canada

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A Monkey Is Tied Up With A Chain Around Its Neck — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a chimpanzee confined in a metal cage with a chain around its neck. The primate sits on a grated floor, its dark fur contrasting with the greenish tint of the footage. The animal appears restless, shifting its position and occasionally looking toward the camera. The grainy, low-light quality of the Super 8 footage adds to the somber mood, offering a stark glimpse into mid-century animal captivity. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or projects exploring animal welfare and retro film aesthetics.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123332650

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1570 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: dr. mc petersen
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: florida,washington dc,canada
Date: 1952 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Quebec, Canada Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Quebec home-movie footage for productions needing a brief archival view of a chained primate in captivity.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show a mid-century zoo or animal-display setting, with a metal chain, barred enclosure, grated flooring, and muted green cast.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds close on the animal from a visitor-like position, capturing small shifts of posture and glances toward the lens rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a dark-furred chimpanzee or monkey, neck chain, metal cage bars, grated floor panels, green enclosure surfaces, and soft daylight at one edge.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, low-light exposure, slight blur, and a greenish color shift that give the animal-captivity scene a period home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use this as a short insert or cutaway for mid-century animal captivity, zoo practices, welfare history, or uneasy travel-memory sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects a home-movie encounter with a chained primate in a confined setting, useful as visual evidence of past animal-display norms without broader claims.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but animal welfare sensitivity and possible location or property context should still be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1952 Quebec 8mm monkey chained, vintage home movie chimpanzee cage, mid-century zoo animal captivity, and archival primate enclosure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Quebec 1952 footage, then broader mid-century zoo, animal captivity, or animal-welfare archive material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Quebec 8mm frame showing a chained dark-furred primate partly hidden inside a green-toned enclosure. — A chained primate is partly obscured in a dim cage-like enclosure.

1952 Quebec home-movie frame of a chained primate looking toward the camera inside a dim enclosure. — The primate turns its face toward the camera with the chain visible nearby.

1952 Quebec 8mm frame showing the chained primate crouched low beside a grated floor panel. — The chained primate lowers its body near the metal floor grating.

1952 Quebec frame with the chained primate seated in shadow beside cage bars and a pale wall edge. — The primate sits in shadow near cage structure and a visible chain.

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