John Marshall Movies

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,"...

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

Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree.

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

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...

In Nyae Nyae, water often remains in open pans. Sometimes if the rains have been heavy, water stays in these pans, like small lakes, all year. In...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...