![The National Rehabilitation Center](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//lIBm8DUMDO5uACEo6YjhCCLasMd.jpg)
The National Rehabilitation Center(1969)
Two years before Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park (1971), director Penelope Spheeris takes the McCarran Act to its inevitable next step and shows us—via an early use of mockumentary—what the U.S. might be like if potential subversives were simply locked up en masse before they had a chance to subvert anything. 16mm, color, 12 min. Director: Penelope Spheeris.1969. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Movie: The National Rehabilitation Center
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