Of dolls & murder [DVD video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Marks, Susan, director, producer.

Waters, John, 1946- narrator.

Dehn, John K. producer composer (expression)

Edition:

Extended version.

Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Oaks, PA : MVD Visual [distributor], [2012]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (70 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Abstract:

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 detectives a medical view of a crime scene.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2011.

Extra features include John Waters on the Nutshells, John Waters on Frances Glessner Lee, patron saint of forensic medicine, the missing Nutshells, filmmakers' commentary.

Performers:

John Waters, narrator.

Technical Details:

DVD; NTSC, Region 1; Aspect ratio, 1.33:1; Dolby Digital.

Personal Subject:

Lee, Frances Glessner, 1878-1962.

Subject Term:

Crime scene searches -- Simulation methods.

Homicide investigation -- Simulation methods.

Crime scenes -- Models.

Forensic pathology.

Diorama.