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Of Dolls and Murder Directed by Susan Marks Produced by John Dehn Narrated by John Waters Music by John Dehn Cinematography Matt Ehling Editing by John Dehn Release date(s) unannounced Language English Of Dolls and Murder is a documentary film about a collection of dollhouse crime scenes and society's collective fascination with death. The film is still fundraising to finish post-production.[1]
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Subject Matter
In the 1930s and 1940s, heiress Frances Glessner Lee, created dollhouse crime scenes to help train detectives in the art of reading crimes scenes. The dollhouses, known as The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, are on permanent loan to the Maryland Medical Examiner's Office in Baltimore, and are not open to the public.[2]
The film follows how these intricate dioramas are still used to train homicide detectives, despite all the technological advances in death investigation. The dioramas also provided inspiration for The Miniature Killer, a recurring villain in season seven of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The villain's modus operandi is to leave behind accurate dioramas of her crime scenes.[3]
In a further exploration of morbid curiosity, the filmmakers also shadow a Baltimore City Homicide Detective, and visit The Body Farm, a famous forensic anthropology site in Tennessee where researchers study the decay of bodies.[4]
See also
- CSI (franchise)
- The Miniature Killer
- John Waters
References
- ^ http://www.indiegogo.com/project/view/1626?iggref=IPJF_TTAG IndieGoGo on 5/8/09
- ^ Monroe, Rachel. "The Art of Murder," Baltimore City Paper, May 5, 2010.
- ^ http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2009/05/new_name_for_ou.shtml Article by Euan Kerr on MPR
- ^ http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natters/archive/2009/01/of_dolls_and_mu.shtml Interview with Movie Natters
External links
Categories:- Documentary films about crimes
- Upcoming films
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