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1 online resource (streaming video file (81 min.)) : flv file, sound, black and white |
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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 |
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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 |
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Title from title frames |
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Originally produced by Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah) in 1969 |
Credits |
Photography, Bill Brayne ; editor, Frederick Wiseman |
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In English, with English subtitles |
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Closed captioned |
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Kansas City (Mo.). Police Department.
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SUBJECT |
Kansas City (Mo.). Police Department fast |
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Law enforcement -- Missouri -- Kansas City
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Police -- Missouri -- Kansas City
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Missouri -- Kansas City
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Police
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Law enforcement
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Race relations
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Kansas City (Mo.) -- Race relations
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Missouri -- Kansas City
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Genre/Form |
documentary film.
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Internet videos
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Nonfiction films
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Documentary films
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Internet videos.
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Documentaires.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Vidéos sur Internet.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Wiseman, Frederick, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work.
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Brayne, William (Television director), director of photography.
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Kansas City (Mo.). Police Department, on-screen participant.
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Zipporah Films, production company.
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