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Tiers: A Story of the Penitentiary - DVD ONF/NFB


Catalogue Number:  NFB522832
Producer:  National Film Board Of Canada
Producers:  Don Hopkins, George Johnson
Directors:  Charles Wilkinson
Producing Agencies:  National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject:  Criminal Justice & Law, Documentary
Language:  English
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  1981
Running Time:  18:30


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Photographed in the abandoned British Columbian penitentiary, built in 1878 and now closed, Tiers is an impressionistic recreation of life inside an old-style prison. Chilling sound and visual effects plunge the audience into the prison experience. Voices of former inmates and guards, bounced off empty walls, reflect on changes that occurred as the penal system evolved in the sixties and seventies.


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