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Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies by Carolyn Anderson, Titicut Follies is an excoriating depiction of conditions in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, a prison-hospital for the criminally insane. After first granting Frederick Wiseman permission to make a documentary at MCI-Bridgewater, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts took Wiseman to court, seeking to prevent the exhibition of Titicut Follies soon after its release in 1967.
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