Movies: John Marshall
- 1967
Titicut Follies (1967)
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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....
- 1957
The Hunters (1957)
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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...
- 1969
N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen (1969)
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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...
- 1978
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend (1978)
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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...
- 1981
N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman (1981)
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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...
- 1969
A Curing Ceremony (1969)
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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....
- 1969
An Argument About a Marriage (1969)
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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...
- 1962
A Joking Relationship (1962)
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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 ...
- 1972
Playing with Scorpions (1972)
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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...
- 1970
N!owa T'ama: The Melon Tossing Game (1970)
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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....
- 1961
A Group of Women (1961)
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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...
- 1971
Bitter Melons (1971)
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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....
- 1973
Youth and the Man of Property (1973)
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A suburban couple calls the police to intervene after being harassed by a youth....
- 1973
You Wasn't Loitering (1973)
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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....
- 1973
Wrong Kid (1973)
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The police, looking for a suspect, question the wrong youth....
- 1971
Vagrant Woman (1971)
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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....
- 1973
Two Brothers (1973)
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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....
- 1973
Twenty-One Dollars or Twenty-One Days (1973)
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A man arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest tells his story in night court....
- 1973
Nothing Hurt But My Pride (1973)
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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....
- 1973
Manifold Controversy (1973)
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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....