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Title Law and order / directed and produced by Frederick Wiseman
Published [Boston] : [Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)], 1969

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file (81 min.)) : flv file, sound, black and white
Summary A cinema verité view of the day-to-day activities of policemen on the Kansas City, Missouri police force. The police are followed through a series of routine actions: locating a stolen purse, caring for a lost child, arresting a prostitute, and settling family problems
LAW & ORDER surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general social services. The incidents shown illustrate how training, community expectations, socio-economic status of the subject, the threat of violence, and discretion affect police behavior.. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in News Documentary Programming at the Primetime Emmy Awards.. "LAW & ORDER was the most powerful hour and a half of television that I've seen all year ..."--Pauline Kael, The New Yorker." ... A vivid impression of (the policemen's) working lives and through this a complex sense of what it means to be in their position in a large American city ... There is the implicit threat of violence in any radio call. Moreover, the cops are expected to dispose of countless routine problems -- drunks, accidents, family quarrels -- that can't be 'solved' to anyone's satisfaction and that most 'decent' people don't want to touch." - Gary Arnold, The Washington Post
Notes Title from title frames
Originally produced by Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah) in 1969
Credits Photography, Bill Brayne ; editor, Frederick Wiseman
Notes In English, with English subtitles
Closed captioned
Subject Kansas City (Mo.). Police Department.
SUBJECT Kansas City (Mo.). Police Department fast
Subject Law enforcement -- Missouri -- Kansas City
Police -- Missouri -- Kansas City
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Missouri -- Kansas City
Police
Law enforcement
Criminal justice, Administration of
Race relations
SUBJECT Kansas City (Mo.) -- Race relations
Subject Missouri -- Kansas City
Genre/Form documentary film.
Internet videos
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Nonfiction films
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Internet videos.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Form Streaming video
Author Wiseman, Frederick, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work.
Brayne, William (Television director), director of photography.
Kansas City (Mo.). Police Department, on-screen participant.
Zipporah Films, production company.
Other Titles Law & order