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Plastic Reconstruction
Clinical & Surgical Black & White SilentJune 6, 2014February 13, 2023

Copper Masks and Faceless Men…

By Zoe Beloff

A tiny, black-robed woman scurries down a deserted street and ducks into an alley overgrown with ivy.

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A black man in a baseball cap talks with a white man in a suit behind a desk in a wood paneled office. Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform: Notes on the Depressive Neurosis Series filmed by the University of Mississippi Medical Center (1969)

When one thinks of audio-visual recordings of psychiatric patients in the United States in the 1960s, the distressing images of Frederick Wiseman’s observational documentary Titicut Follies (1967) may come to mind. The Depressive Neurosis series from 1969 bears no resemblance to these films. Instead, the series offers a rare glimpse into the day-to-day world of late 1960s psychiatric practice, in which people with addiction, mental illness, or mental disabilities seek help and are received with an open mind and treated with dignity by the doctors they speak to and the camera crew that films them.

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Film still of a large steaming pot hung on a tripod over a fire pit. The Medicine Man (1959)

This 1959 film aims to expose quackery in medicine and nutrition, telling the story of a charlatan who peddles "VitaLife" and special diets and supplements. He offers them as a general insurance of health and a cure for all manner of ailments. Calling his salesmanship educational, he maneuvers to offer "lectures" in any location that will have him, combined with a hard sell to those in attendance. Food and drug regulators keep the public safe by exposing the quack for what he is.

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