| Edition |
Extended version. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC, Region 1; Aspect ratio, 1.33:1; Dolby Digital. |
| Credits |
Cinematography, Matt Ehling ; original music, John Kurtis Dehn ; narrator, John Waters. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2011. |
| Audience |
Rating: Not rated. |
| Summary |
A documentary about the collection of miniature crime scenes created in the 1930's and 1940's called Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. Made by Frances Glessner Lee, a millionaire heiress who revolutionized the study of crime scene investigation and who founded Harvard's department of legal medicine, the first program in the nation for forensic pathology, the diormas are still used today to give homicide detective a medical view of a crime scene. |
| Note |
Extra features include John Waters on the nutshells, John Waters on Frances Glessner Lee, patron saint of forensic medicine, the missing nutshells, filmmakers' commentary. |
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GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Lee, Frances Glessner, 1878-1962.
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Crime scene searches -- Simulation methods.
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Homicide investigation -- Simulation methods.
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Crime scenes -- Models.
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Forensic pathology.
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Diorama.
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| Added Author |
Marks, Susan, director, producer.
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Waters, John, narrator.
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Dehn, John K., producer, composer.
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MVD Visual (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Of dolls and murder |
| Standard No. |
760137534495 |
| Music No. |
MVD5344D MVD Visual |
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