John Marshall Movies

This film, shot in 1952-53, documents the scarification ceremony called "marking" which was traditionally held for Ju/'hoan boys after they had...

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 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...

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...

For thousands of years Ju/'hoansi have lived in the Nyae Nyae region in northeastern Namibia. In the 1950s, most Ju/'hoansi had been exterminated or...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...