1985CRIME
FEB 1985 SAN QUINTON PRISON
Interviews with inmates at San Quentin State Prison
Interviews with inmates at San Quentin State Prison
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Reel opens - some scratchy lines going through film
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| 01:00:03 3.49 |
Footage clears. Pan out from game of dominoes reveals four male prisoners standing around in the prison hall, one with a small notebook, others holding the domino tiles, and talking to unseen interviewer how its the number one game at San Quentin Prison.
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| 01:00:27 27.21 |
Inmate in prison cell making up his bunk, CU Television screen, prisoner talks with unseen interviewer.
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| 01:00:53 53.76 |
Various shots around the prison - inmate in Mess hall carrying a tray of food including a large stack of slices of white bread and two big bowls of soup, prisoners outside in the yard playing basketball, and an inmate seen working in the wood shop.
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| 01:01:15 75.81 |
Inmate, "Robert aka as Smokey" in an office talks with unseen interviewer about his 7 days per week job as a Food Service Clerk and the benefits of having a job while incarcerated. He is seen typing at his desk.
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| 01:01:45 105.66 |
CUs Smokey's son Ron, and Smokey's son-in-law Richard, both also inmates at San Quentin.
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| 01:01:48 108.71 |
Richard doing 17 years for rape, talks to unseen interviewer about how he met Robert at Folsom Prison and introduced him to his mother. Smokey and Ron, doing life for murder, standing out in the yard speak to interviewer about what it's like to know you'll never get free. Various shots of Smokey, Ron and Richard around the prison.
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| 01:02:45 165.63 |
Black inmate inside jail cell.
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| 01:02:54 174.52 |
Hands holding on to jail cell bars - POV from out on the cell block (hallway). Hands sticking out from jail cells holding small hand held mirrors so as to see other cell mates.
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| 01:03:15 195.11 |
Pan along the security housing unit, known as the "" - several floors of row after row of prison cells.
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| 01:03:25 205.37 |
Exterior - guard tower with officer inside, barbed wire hanging from building,
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| 01:03:28 208.18 |
CU a bearded inmate known as "Wild Bill Hickock" talks with unseen interviewer about what its like to have spent 41 years of his life behind bars. Wild Bill, age 66, seen in his cell lying on his bunk talks proudly about all the robberies he committed, 287 in one year. Interviewer unseen tells about a time he escaped but got caught in a soup kitchen.
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| 01:04:15 255.06 |
Great shot of bearded Wild Bill stepping out of his jail cell, lime green bars with peeling paint. Bill strolls slowly through the prison yard and shots of him in his bunk talking with unseen interviewer.
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| 01:04:59 299.46 |
CU male inmate "Jim aka Geronimo" talks from inside his cell (POV outside the cell) about his horrible childhood when he was raped and locked in a dog house for a year. Unseen interviewer reports he has spent 34 years of 51 for rape, burglary and manslaughter.
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| 01:05:41 341.77 |
"Geronimo" in the prison butcher shop is seen talking while skinning and cutting the meat off a deer hanging upside down. Unseen interviewer states Geronimo was asked to do this because he's an Indian. Interviewer also states that any time outside a cell is considered "golden time".
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| 01:06:05 365.72 |
Cutaway an exterior shot San Quentin Prison.
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| 01:06:08 368.76 |
CU Geronimo from his inside jail cell tells interviewer he doesn't mind prison but would like to be outside and meet friends. He states to unseen interviewer that he isn't sorry for what he's done but states he is sorry for his victims. He states if he ever got out he'd do the same thing again.
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| 01:06:54 414.81 |
ECU on geronimo's face through the blurred prison bars, notably his sad tired eyes.
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| 01:07:10 430.53 |
Film ends.
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| 01:08:38 518.12 |
Reel end.
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