Movies: John Marshall

  • 1967
    Titicut Follies

    Titicut Follies (1967)

    Titicut Follies

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    A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists....

    Titicut Follies
  • 1957
    The Hunters

    The Hunters (1957)

    The Hunters

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    An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored expediti...

    The Hunters
  • 1969
    N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen

    N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen (1969)

    N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen

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    Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In the 1950's, when this film was shot, Ju/'hoansi gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at nigh...

    N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
  • 1978
    Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend

    Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend (1978)

    Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend

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    Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendar...

    Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
  • 1981
    N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman

    N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman (1981)

    N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman

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    This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/'hoan life over a thirty y...

    N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman
  • 1969
    A Curing Ceremony

    A Curing Ceremony (1969)

    A Curing Ceremony

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    Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance, without the stimulus of dancing, in an attempt to cure her. Sha//ge lives but the baby is stillborn....

    A Curing Ceremony
  • 1969
    An Argument About a Marriage

    An Argument About a Marriage (1969)

    An Argument About a Marriage

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    An Argument About a Marriage raises questions about the impact of European farms on the economic and the social life of the Ju/'hoansi; about the complexities of marriage rules and bride-service in their traditional kinship system; and about the natu...

    An Argument About a Marriage
  • 1962
    A Joking Relationship

    A Joking Relationship (1962)

    A Joking Relationship

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    This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great-uncle /Ti!kay. The two share a "joking relationship," a Ju/'hoan kin relationship which provides opportunities for casual intimacy, emotional release, and ...

    A Joking Relationship
  • 1972
    Playing with Scorpions

    Playing with Scorpions (1972)

    Playing with Scorpions

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    Between 1950 and 1958, John Marshall made four expeditions to film the Ju/'hoansi (a group of !Kung Bushmen) of the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia (then South West Africa). During this time, Marshall shot over 300,000 feet of 16mm film (157 hours). He l...

    Playing with Scorpions
  • 1970
    N!owa T'ama: The Melon Tossing Game

    N!owa T'ama: The Melon Tossing Game (1970)

    N!owa T'ama: The Melon Tossing Game

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    Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense game in which under-tones of social and personal tensions become apparent....

    N!owa T'ama: The Melon Tossing Game
  • 1961
    A Group of Women

    A Group of Women (1961)

    A Group of Women

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    Ju/'hoan women often share an intimate sociability and spend many hours together discussing their lives, enjoying each other's company and children. In this short film, Ju/'hoan women rest, talk and nurse their babies while lying in the shade of a ba...

    A Group of Women
  • 1971
    Bitter Melons

    Bitter Melons (1971)

    Bitter Melons

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    This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana....

    Bitter Melons
  • 1973
    Youth and the Man of Property

    Youth and the Man of Property (1973)

    Youth and the Man of Property

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    A suburban couple calls the police to intervene after being harassed by a youth....

    Youth and the Man of Property
  • 1973
    You Wasn't Loitering

    You Wasn't Loitering (1973)

    You Wasn't Loitering

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    This film treats the problem of "loitering." In a number of sequences, police warn youths, police administrators discuss enforcement of loitering laws, officers are insulted, and several youths are arrested....

    You Wasn't Loitering
  • 1973
    Wrong Kid

    Wrong Kid (1973)

    Wrong Kid

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    The police, looking for a suspect, question the wrong youth....

    Wrong Kid
  • 1971
    Vagrant Woman

    Vagrant Woman (1971)

    Vagrant Woman

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    An unemployed woman who has been living in her car is questioned by the police. They offer her advice and finally take her to the Salvation Army....

    Vagrant Woman
  • 1973
    Two Brothers

    Two Brothers (1973)

    Two Brothers

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    This short film shows a family's attempt to resolve a dispute among themselves over a brother's damaged car, after the police have been called to intervene....

    Two Brothers
  • 1973
    Twenty-One Dollars or Twenty-One Days

    Twenty-One Dollars or Twenty-One Days (1973)

    Twenty-One Dollars or Twenty-One Days

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    A man arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest tells his story in night court....

    Twenty-One Dollars or Twenty-One Days
  • 1973
    Nothing Hurt But My Pride

    Nothing Hurt But My Pride (1973)

    Nothing Hurt But My Pride

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    This film consists of several sequences related to arrests after street fights involving policemen, and discussions of the incidents by the police in cars and at the station....

    Nothing Hurt But My Pride
  • 1973
    Manifold Controversy

    Manifold Controversy (1973)

    Manifold Controversy

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    A customer tries to explain to police why he feels he has been cheated out of an exhaust system by a garage owner....

    Manifold Controversy