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Andrew Goodman-Bacon @agoodmanbacon
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I'm so excited to have ordered a bunch of Frederick Wiseman documentaries today (for work!).

The most immediately relevant one is "Welfare": 3 hours of unadorned footage from a NYC welfare office in 1975. It's not for everyone, but it is totally for me

cinetrafic.fr/video/extrait-…
"Hospital" (1970) gives the same treatment to Metropolitan Center Hospital in East Harlem:

"High School" to a high school in Philadelphia in 1968:
vimeo.com/176401029
"Titicut Follies" (1967) looked at a mental institution in Mass, and was apparently very controversial (was it an issue of informed consent or a cover up by the state?).

"Law and Order" (1969) documents the KC police department.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_O…
These glimpses of institutions in the 1960s are very valuable to me. If anyone has other suggestions along these lines, I'm all ears!
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