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Utica Psychiatric Center Training and Publicity Motion Pictures and Videotapes

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Overview of the Records

Arrangement

Arranged by type of medium.

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of moving image media, including both videotapes and motion picture films. Some of the film is original and dates to the 1930s; some of the videotapes are duplicates of the films. Subjects and titles include "Out of the Shadows: Admission of a Patient," (1930); "The Patient Needs All of Us" (n.d.); and an open houses television special (1972).

Some of the films were used for staff training; others were for public relations purposes, such as the film "Out of the Shadows: Admission of a Patient" which was made to publicize conditions of a typical state hospital in 1930. At that time a proposal was submitted to voters for an issue of fifty million dollars to increase the accommodations of state institutions, to relieve overcrowding, and to provide for new institutions.

Alternate Formats Available

Items Online

Selected video items from this series have been digitized and are available in State Archives Digital Collections.

New York State Archives Digital Collections

Training and publicity motion pictures and videotapes, 1930-1989

Other Finding Aids

Available at Repository

An item list is available at the repository.

Acquisition Information

These records were transferred to the State Archives on May 28, 1997 from Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center under RDA 19266.

Access Restrictions

Access to records depicting patients is restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.

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