John Marshall Movies

This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with...

In this film, an argument arises between two bands when an antelope killed by a hunter from one band is found and distributed by a man from another...

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.

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...

Ju/'hoan women often share an intimate sociability and spend many hours together discussing their lives, enjoying each other's company and children....

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

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,"...

In this film a five-year-old named Debe refuses to let his mother Di!ai go gathering without him. Di!ai appeals to her daughter N!ai to entertain the...

Pioneering ethnographic filmmaker John Marshall casts an eye on the inner workings of a Pittsburgh police station, capturing law enforcement’s...

In this film, a group of women and children gather sweet, fresh /ole berries and sha roots. The younger women, led by N!ai, bait a nest of wasps. As...

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

Policemen intervene when a woman calls to complain that her boyfriend stole forty dollars. The argument soon escalates as the man refuses to admit...

/Gunda, a young man (who later marries N!ai), pretends to be a lion. He is "hunted" and "killed" by a group of boys.

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...

This film treats the problem of "loitering." In a number of sequences, police warn youths, police administrators discuss enforcement of loitering...

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...

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

An installment in the Pittsburgh Police series. A number of short sequences show some of the events and people in the daily lives of several...

Police search for drugs in a house where they arrest a group of boys who return from a basketball game and are accused of having a loud party and...

The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film's subjects, "a...