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Titicut Follies is a American direct cinema documentary film produced, written, and directed by Frederick Wiseman and filmed by John Marshall. The title is taken from that of a talent show put on by the hospital staff. Titicut is the Wampanoag name for the nearby Taunton River. The film won accolades in Germany and Italy. Wiseman went on to produce many more such films examining social institutions e.

In , the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Titicut Follies portrays the occupants of Bridgewater State Hospital , who are often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed. The film employs methods of direct cinema , which emphasizes observation, limited stylization, and non-intervention by filmmakers.

Titicut Follies was the beginning of the documentary career of Frederick Wiseman , a Boston-born lawyer turned filmmaker. He had taken his law classes from Boston University to the institution for educational purposes and had "wanted to do a film there". He began calling the facility superintendent, seeking permission to film a year prior to production.

Wiseman drafted a proposal that was verbally agreed to by the superintendent, which later came into question when the film began distribution.

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Following that agreement, filming began, with corrections staff following Wiseman at all times and determining on the spot whether the subjects filmed were mentally competent, adding further confusion to an already fraught process. Twenty-nine days were spent documenting the conditions at Bridgewater and 80, feet of film were shot.

Wiseman spent approximately a year editing the footage into the final minute narrative. Just before the film was to be shown at the New York Film Festival , the Massachusetts government tried to procure an injunction banning its release, [ 7 ] claiming that the film violated the patients' privacy and dignity.