SHOCK CORRIDOR
(Sam Fuller / 1963 / USA / 96 mins / 16mm / cert 15)

Newspaper reporter Barrett is so obsessed with winning the Pulitzer Prize that he plans to get himself committed to the state hospital as a sexual pervert. Once there, he plans to solve a murder by gaining the trust of three inmates who witnessed the murder, and finding out the truth that eluded the police. Strongly independent film auteur Samuel Fuller filmed this mostly in black and white-with a few bizarre colour sequences shot in different film stock to represent dream sequences.

MENTAL HOSPITAL
This 1953 short film, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, tries to make you feel OK about "modern" treatment (institutionalisation, insulin
shock and electro shock) of mental illness and reduce the stigma, yet begins and ends with a full screen disclaimer: "Recognizable personages appearing in this film are not patients in a mental institution". A gem of a retro-oddity from the Stevenson camp.