# Dr. Pinel Unchains the Insane

Reduction print of the 35 mm. motion picture made for the CBS television program You are there

With film users' guide

Reconstructs events of May 24, 1793, at an insane asylum in Paris, as Dr. Philippe Pinel fights for humane treatment of the mentally ill, heretofore chained and treated like dangerous animals

Producers, James Fonda, Walter Blake, Sidney Van Keuren; director, Bernard Girard; script writer, Shirley Gordon; narrator, Walter Cronkite; photographer, Ed Fitzgerald; film editor, Budd Small

Michael Ross, Harry Gordon, Lou Kingman, Gene Roth, William Hoyden

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1955
- By: CBS Television Network, Young America Films
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/drpinelunchainstheinsane)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/drpinelunchainstheinsane?play=1)