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Three domestics / by John Marshall.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pittsburgh (Pa.). Bureau of Police.
- Pittsburgh (Pa.).
- Family violence--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Family violence.
- Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (30 min.) : sound, black and white
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown (Mass.) : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1971.
- Language Note:
- English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- This film shows Pittsburgh police intervening in three domestic situations: (1) A woman wants the police to remove the man she has been living with in common law. They arrange for his arrest on an assault and battery charge; (2) A woman accuses her boyfriend of beating her and the man accuses her of lying. The police remove the man with some difficulty; (3) A boisterous and drunken father is removed from his house to spend the night in jail at the insistence of his wife and older son. Throughout the sequence, the father is cared for by his younger son.
- Notes:
- Previously released on DVD.
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed May 30, 2012).
- Filmed in Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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