Art Conviction: Prisoners Hold Own Art Show.
Art Conviction: Prisoners Hold Own Art Show.
Clip: 426606_1_1
Year Shot: 1965
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1734
Original Film: 038-031-02
HD: N/A
Location: San Francisco, California
Timecode: 00:43:36 - 00:44:43
Inmates of the California Prison Hospital put on their own art show - an exhibit that is visited by 10,000 outsiders. Stone walls do not a prison make -- that's the picture these men paint to prove that nothing imprisons a man's sprit or imaginations. San Francisco, California The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. MS Prison gates opening and a small crowd of people start to walk in. Inside the prison there is an art exhibit set up with the opportunity to purchase maybe great works of art. Lady admiring a seascape painting. A prize ribbon hanging of a piece of modern art. Painting of a man. Abstract painting of a woman. The halls are filled with people looking at the art.