Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

9/1/1987 - 3/31/1988

Funding Totals

$25,000.00 (approved)
$25,000.00 (awarded)


Asylum: The Troubled History of U.S. Mental Institutions

FAIN: GN-23205-87

Stone Lantern Films, Inc. (Suffern, NY 10901-6826)
Sarah Mondale (Project Director: March 1987 to April 1988)

To support script revision for a 60-minute documentary film tracing the evolution of the philosophy of care for the mentally ill in America, using the story of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC as a case study.