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Thin Line

Accession number: 
1977.0021

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Production Years: 
1977

Languages:

  • English
Film Properties: 
  • Colour
  • Sound
Length (feet): 
1168
Length (minutes): 
32

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Holding Institutions: 

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia: 16mm.
"Visits the maximum security mental health centre at Penetanguishene, Ontario. Through interviews and in therapy sessions with the patients, shows the capacity for understanding and humanity in these men who have committed some of the most brutal crimes including rape, assault and murder. "

Library and Archives Canada: 16mm, VHS.

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Online Database National Film Board of Canada.
"The maximum security mental health center at Penetanguishene, Ontario, is a hospital for the criminally insane. Through interviews and during the therapy sessions of the patients themselves (including a glimpse into 'the capsule," which patients enter voluntarily as a way to break down psychological reserve), Thin Line shows the capacity for understanding and human compassion in these men who have committed some of the most brutal crimes, including rape, assault, and murder."