Plagarism - they used footage from the Holocaust!

I was wondering about that. I did think some of the footage looked a lot like from some Holocaust videos I have seen.

However, I would like to add that even the best fed patients can start to look very emaciated as they approach death. One of the reasons I stopped working at retirement homes and hospices.


When the hurly-burly's done. When the battle's lost and won.

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Thank you, despeyland, for pointing that out. I noticed it too, and I am outraged that they would purposely insert historically inaccurate footage. Did they really think that, for the purposes of their documentary, that Holocaust victims and TB patients were interchangeable? It disrepects both groups and their families.

Regardless of whether the use of this footage was credited or not, it was used in an inappropriate and misleading manner.

Because these sanitoriums lasted well into the 1930's I'm sure other footage could have been found accurately depicting the plight of tuberculosis patients. Worst-case scenario would be showing still photos in montage.

Any pretense at credibility this film may have had at the outset was totally destroyed for me when the first footage of European refugees bound for the ghetto appeared under the guise of tuberculosis patients being brought to Waverly.


"Damn lamp post!"

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Not that is was right, but at the end, there's a disclaimer saying not all the footage is from the historical archives of Waverly, and from other sources. So, they covered themselves, at least.

Spooked was a documentary and also a very entertaining film. Since Waverly is about two seconds from where I live, and the town goes nuts over the place, I can give you some history...

1. There was a bad flood in Kentucky in the 20's, which caused a lot of records and photos to be destroyed. Waverly images and documents were part of these, and while some remain - no actual footage from that time exists.

2. Stock footage is common in a lot of movies to give emphasis or to stimulate an EMOTIONAL response. The film in itself is not a "educational" documentary, it is very hip and artistic. Appreciate that the "white plague" or TB epidemic was very much like the Holocaust in some respects. A. People were FORCED to be away from their loved ones, and to live surrounded by death. B. Were used in experiments (sometimes bloody and lethal) to attempt to locate a cure. C. If one family member had it, the whole family was forced to go - infecting them.

This was about infection, isolation, cruelty, and pain. What happened during the Holocaust should never, and will never be forgiven - and I respect that.

The same should go for those who suffered and died at Waverly.

For those of you who made this an issue, I am sure you have a different agenda, and should ultimately re-think your motives.

~ Mack

Umm... I believe that Holocaust footage is actually free to distribute and use. In The Hills Have Eyes and Dreamscape they used footage from nuclear bomb tests, so I think that holocaust footage is in the same boat.

you know the documentary lacks factual integrity when they use a "ghost hunter" to guide them through the sanatorium and interview as an expert rather than someone who actually worked there.

i lost interest in the film as soon as they printed the on screen text describing EM fields as something that suggests paranormal activity. this "documentary"--if you can even call it that--is only for people who are incredibly gullible and dense, and are more interested in artificially played up drama than factual historic information.

this is essentially the film equivalent of supermarket tabloids like the national inquirer. it's junk food media meant for consumption by the ignorant/gullible.