John Marshall Movies

Follows police patrol cars 901 and 904 as they ply the streets of Pittsburgh, responding to diverse situations.

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...

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...

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

This film focuses on a black burglary suspect who, during interrogation by police offers his services as an "undercover" informant - providing the...

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

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

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...

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...

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,"...

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

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

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

In each scene, police respond to a different domestic abuse calls.

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...

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,...

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

Investigation of a Hit and Run follows two officers as they investigate a hit-and-run accident from initial reports to the questioning of witnesses...

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.

This film consists of sequences from the Pittsburgh Police footage intercut with a panel discussion moderated by Professor James Vorenberg of Harvard...