Quebec Canada-1952: People Walk Past A Sign That Says "Welcome To The American Psychiatric Association"

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

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People Walk Past A Sign That Says "Welcome To The... — Clip Details

QUEBEC CANADA-1952: People walk past a large sign welcoming attendees to the American Psychiatric Association conference, held May 12-16, 1952. The 8mm home movie captures attendees in period attire—men in suits and hats, women in dresses and hats—moving through a building entrance. The grainy, slightly faded color and soft focus are characteristic of vintage Super 8 film. The scene conveys a formal, mid-century professional gathering with a nostalgic, archival quality.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123333741

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$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves documentary, medical-history, and professional-association productions seeking authentic 1952 conference footage with a legible, date-stamped organizational sign.
Period detail: Sign text confirms 'MAY 12-16, 1952'; attendees wear mid-century suits, fedoras, and structured hats consistent with early 1950s professional dress.
Home-movie behavior: An attendee or companion filmed fellow conference-goers arriving, capturing unstaged crowd movement rather than an official record of the event.
What appears in frame: Conference welcome sign with legible date text, dark stone building entrance, yellow upholstered chairs, woman in white hat and blue coat, woman in red jacket, and a group in period hats approaching the door.
Film character: Warm color cast, visible grain, and mild exposure variation across frames are characteristic of 8mm color reversal stock from the early 1950s.
Edit role: Functions as a period-establishing insert or cutaway, anchoring a documentary sequence to a named event through the sign's legible date and organization name.
Historical context: The APA's 1952 annual meeting coincided with the organization publishing its first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; this may heighten research interest beyond general conference stock.
Research note: The APA name on the sign constitutes an organizational trademark; attendees' faces may require likeness review; home-movie provenance and absence of model releases should be confirmed before editorial use.
Research search match: Researchers will find this via queries such as '1952 APA conference footage', 'American Psychiatric Association history', 'mid-century medical conference', or '1950s Canada professional gathering'.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same 1952 Quebec reel; then with Canadian conference footage from the 1950s; then with mid-century medical or professional-association material.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm color footage, Quebec 1952: large conference welcome sign for the American Psychiatric Association (May 12-16) with a woman in white hat and blue dress at a building entrance. — Woman in white hat near APA conference welcome sign, Quebec, May 1952.

8mm color footage, Quebec 1952: APA conference welcome sign at a building entrance, with several attendees in period dress including a woman in a red jacket and a figure in white. — Attendees near APA conference sign at building entrance, 1952.

8mm color footage, Quebec 1952: mid-century-dressed attendees seen from behind approaching the APA conference building entrance, welcome sign and partial date visible. — Conference-goers approaching APA entrance from behind, 1952.

8mm color footage, Quebec 1952: final frame shows the APA conference welcome sign and a group of period-dressed attendees in hats and coats moving toward the building entrance. — Attendees at APA conference entrance, Quebec, May 1952.

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