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mayor second season public television the toughest part of kansas city at the albertson's law and author of film the chronicle of a big city police force the problems it faces and the people and projects that might reveal the last ninety minutes now here is chief correspondent edward p morgan but even the late great president of harvard child eliot once said in the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition of social progress our lives these days are handcuffed by such a constant chain reaction of crises that progress so to speak often seems totally unrest one reason is we've neglected dr elliot with them
and imprisoned are common sense in a cell of natural predators selfish pride and blind passion if we never summon the courage to level with ourselves and see things as they are how can we ever expect to make them what they should be how for instance can we come to grips with the urban crisis until we learn how society actually treats the police hired to go to actors and how the cop interned react to us and the job we've handed him in may nineteen sixty eight three months before the battle of chicago the dr commissioned an independent producer of integrity and talent fred wiseman the film an urban police force in action what follows is wise men's report which bpl is proud to air this is not an encyclopedia on law enforcement problems jusino riots either on the campus or in the ghetto the multibillion dollar dragnet the mackey on society is not pursue organized crime coming it's corruption of police and other
people must cost as far more than prime ministry these exciting subjects of got big headlines spun a kind of cops and robbers folklore and occasionally inspired thoughtful journalistic treatment too often in the process the incredibly demanding repeatedly dangerous but often dehumanizing day to day life of the ordinary policeman has been forgotten that's what fred wiseman story is all about in kansas city where this film was shot the maximum based pay for a policeman is at two hundred dollars a year this is less than the average union sanitation worker gets in new york we've made because among other things a sort of human garbage collector keep the streets clean of dereliction deviates we say in effect so society will be spared the site of its own failures we even close our ears to the language which is as much a part of a patrol mans life as his nightstick or the slums and skid row's on his be used as both a weapon and tissue this language is rougher and uglier but often far more honest and what's said in
church or in the living room this film's loan guarantees are not there for shock value but for their veracity reaching for a true reflection of the hatred fear houses and content spawned in an environment of neglect and bar since people can't be squeamish certain words had been deleted from the spill some viewers may still be offended by what they see and hear others may be equally offended by the fact that taste has dictated the removal of some material fred wiseman documentary there's no more then contribute to the intelligence of public opinion by broadening the debate on police community relations television hopefully will have broken some new ground and paradoxically the absent obscenity is symbolized the biggest obscenity of all societies stubborn refusal to face facts however unpleasant or downright dirty they may be the
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deceased it is today oh i know
maybe i just got here and it really meant a lot to live near got there i don't know so now the policemen and white policemen are only thrown into police in a legally because i really don't appreciate it and isn't there a twenty minute to freeze this is i'm not a criminal and intrigue is why i'm not used to it and it is unnecessary williams says
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here a pale and then you know when he sees the parties are losing weight but here's the thing it really all it is it's nice to do it in the thirty to know
that while it may be there are nearly all of the characters breaks be one that one creature that some of their use your utility try to shape at the moment but that one i thought this is big here the
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yours is it oh god people are you know huge a few hours they want to i don't know i do and then there aren't tell you i got you a loop of whether they are plenty of lot of tears
is right yeah what was that like to feel much more on the man for good given to clear the new law but they are you will never get by now it's
been enough ballots because because i don't know would you do it the man who is yet
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they got all the core message is the people you're really lies is russia today well you all know a vital role in the juvenile jails in asia were you
you're a visionary you know yes indeed easier what do you do a couple like a brief story are you resisting arrest and then revert to they
needed a thing that was the reason to report so and so and the little port reportedly were doing well i'm going in at yongbyon enemies oh yes
many he has no wide by what their viewing party over what
they believe bill weld all over all day a day and a long wait and i go and i have been waiting he's been
lying low is big day and that i think is all have a lot of allies on the covers of a good at it that they thought that the land
right right so that the economy they were paying job and can live it is
benin and i thought really although they are a boy or you know i've been there you want to evacuate filter think if you walked through it is being in the polls and the police going to help unite behind an event or they feel a part of this thing is that you can really think you know they say that
bill even think it is yet it's you know you build a local not really a big deal why are pro and you hear in the car when they would get it and that always stayed at people magazine i don't you know want to add to them in their baby stage is this panel of but i guess that beyond that i think they did it that way no i think i don't agree with you live here yeah well yeah
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know thank you oh yeah i don't think it's a lot of money after all want to read it and he was the seventh than the nano and so he sent out now but i haven't i've just doubts about two weeks this is
the first i think it's been nice but initially the piece that's right
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and then they also announced today that you just pull it that's right see you here loud you get have you know i'm at an awful thing i was asked you hear to head west
nile on it tell me you know maybe not maybe one of the island led know about you know gee i think here and now if you get caught you know thank you all
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work you're welcome yeah we've issued give you a dozen of them and update and i know you're so it all about the other than that led to another bad mr
aaron yes only store then some young negro male view on aaron and harassed the store people in fear of the killing so we get to do that offers inside the building a night in case anyone to get cynical that area and also get to this particular spill thank you cause
just as easy to follow her oh yeah for years and music turned into the parking lot at the event of us up and he is going to live on for what he
did and so her serve it that's right thank you no
do it right now i lived a monster just because we live right now in the legislation the idea of a third of all
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make the new and rewritten and i never drink and me mr tarter
says although farm girl at that level or severely say so when there were two with the same name thanks
bill viewers is the years human services you know there has been
you know it's been on the position he has been show for
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get it for years or golf but it's been careful
to put the play is the play the piece is the piece by the police beat and
then because there's a lot of not just read the words i got some money and do on one thousand two thousand or so it's an undue burden
they say then
at the peak the plant these things these
days the population and to get into the postseason there's babies
before you know it and you can have a job they may not agree with our listeners an idea that i have now worried those who have always there because i can yesterday see you
what do you want your child you go down and you get all your lawyer in these cardboard sleeves up because your wife and see if you can get that child with another wife you come back here one of the two people we don't wanna answer bethlehem a contact a lawyer and he was about thirteen while part of which you got to keep that good for you she loved to have people out a little bit of love that you and i don't know if you can tell us about this if you want to not making people within a mile wide i don't know and i don't care that she will have
five thousand people of michigan have genetic so your lawyer right now if you don't go home and you don't go inside with which you're going to get you a lawyer and then you have about that abortion is one of the report on this kid we can't do a thing about it well on families arrive at that you're not listen i didn't go downtown and enjoy about reports about what you want like it reflects about the way this has been three months and i just felt like it refers to have three months before you can say about your child that you're going to have a judge say
that's what these people do have a winner before together don't make it you're a lawyer in corpus only the table so that this ridiculous her see that like you know she was like a sweater sport ok still a situation which can so why i know been in trouble my life but for now neither partner but amabile about this boy had an idol once the vibe of what might be capable of as you all those
bills but there are nina marini over the objections of the director of lawnmower mr frederic weis one extremely abusive and provocative language was deleted from certain scenes of the spill he feels that it is difficult to understand the police response in those scenes without experiencing the language that provoked the police action and therefore the deletions were unfair to the police department at kansas city sam makes some vague idea returns with multiply and civilian
ones who is not a new approach to learning that would take into account the natural sounds of the environment and stop our cities from spreading into anonymity for children themselves the players be right it's been a pause button as it is
seventy six nationwide distribution of the proceeding program was a service of the corporation for public broadcasting it's both two hundred miles of the family from cleveland think this is the captain speaking were holding ever heard for it was flying from philadelphia was alive all the way into new report
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Series
Public Broadcast Laboratory
Episode Number
214
Episode
Law and Order
Producing Organization
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Contributing Organization
Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
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Description
Episode Description
The big city cop is he a sadist or a sage? To find out, the Public Broadcast Laboratory examined at close range a major metropolitan police force in action. Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman turned his cameras on the police department of a major American city. The result was the Emmy-winning "Law and Order," a profile on the Kansas City Missouri police force in action. To make this film, producer Wiseman and his cameraman, Bill Brayne, rode in police cars for some 250 hours during five weeks of filming, working an average of 17 hours a day and sometimes around the clock. Patrolling some of the toughest parts of Kansas City, they accompanied police on every kind of call, from little child lost to grand larceny. Wiseman and Brayne followed one patrolman into a clothing store and filmed him as, carbine at the ready, he frisked three browsing customers. Two of them were carrying revolvers. The filmmakers witnessed the face of society that the city cop sees, and more often than not it was a black face: a man turned in by his wife for coming at her with a gun; a boy turned in by his father for playing hooky; an old woman whose purse has been snatched; another embroiled with a cab driver over the fare; a crumpled old wino the neighbors call Geronimo; a man beaten up; and a young couple fighting over custody of a child; a petulant youth nabbed on a charge of stealing a car and hit-and-run. As he is arrested, he mouths the most provocative of epitets repeatedly at the policeman, and swears to kill one of them when he gets out; and a little lost child, who is taken to the station house, fed candy and put in a playpen. On the other hand, when the vice squad ferrets a young prostitute out of the basement of a sleazy hotel, one of the plain clothes men nearly strangles her, deliberately and unnecessarily. Later another plain clothes man says to her, "He wasn 't chokin ' you, you 're imagin ' it. And the white faces: a bloated, middle-aged man booked on a charge of sexually assaulting a boy; a shrill female saloonkeeper whose joint has been raided; a bitter young couple at each other's throats until the squad car arrives; a cop-baiting drunk; an obese madam who sets the stationhouse in an uproar; and a young girl hit by a car. PBL commissioned Wiseman to make "Law and Order" in May 1968. He was turned down by the New York City, Los Angeles and Baltimore police departments before Kansas City came through. "Law and Order" was produced for the Public Broadcasting Laboratory in 1969. The "Fred Wiseman Festival," a presentation of WNET, New York later re-aired "Law and Order" as episode 104. The 90-minute piece was shot in black and white. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date
1973-01-25
Created Date
1969-03-02
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Documentary
Topics
Social Issues
Race and Ethnicity
Public Affairs
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
01:29:26
Credits
Associate Editor: Howard, Carter
Camera Operator: Brayne, Bill
Director: Wiseman, Frederick
Editor: Wiseman, Frederick
Producer: Wiseman, Frederick
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: wnet_aacip_6897 (WNET Archive)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Original
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Chicago: “Public Broadcast Laboratory; 214; Law and Order,” 1973-01-25, Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 18, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-246q5bz0.
MLA: “Public Broadcast Laboratory; 214; Law and Order.” 1973-01-25. Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 18, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-246q5bz0>.
APA: Public Broadcast Laboratory; 214; Law and Order. Boston, MA: Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-75-246q5bz0