John Marshall Filmes

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

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

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

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

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, 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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

FIRST FILM was edited and narrated by Lorna Marshall and is comprised of footage shot in 1951 on the second Marshall family expedition to the...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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