Public Domain Movies
Running Time: 19 mins Color
Starring: Alan Kishbaugh
The dangers of drug use by teenagers are illustrated by showing how well dressed, happy teens are turned into slovenly, longhaired, drug addled potheads who don't know that, according to the film's drug expert, "in high dosages, it [marijuana] parallels LSD."
Running Time: 22 mins Black & White
Starring: John Galvarro, James Brill
Marty Malone smokes pot and cuts his mouth on a Pepsi bottle. Then he starts on heroin and ends up in rehab.
Running Time: 16 mins Color
Starring: Anita Bryant
This anti-drug film uses common childhood habits and activities, such as building a machine out of Lego blocks, to metaphorically illustrate the effects and dangers of drug abuse.
Running Time: 3 mins Color
Starring: Satori Junk
A 1969 educational short about a young girl who gets, "pretty jacked up" on marijuana, and has an experience with LSD and going to a hot dog stand.
Running Time: 29 mins Color
Starring: National Library of Medicine's historical audiovisuals program
The life of the typical teen in the late 1960s is presented, with rebellion and experimentation in clothes, hair, and extracurricular activities discussed, along with peer pressure and the effect it can have on teens. The dangers of drugs, and LSD in particular, are described, with doctors, scientists, and geneticists discussing the possible effects of LSD on the body, including chromosomal damage that can affect future generations. The impact on fetal development in animals given LSD is shown. Examples of other psychological and physiological effects are illustrated, such as the dangerous belief that one can fly, or that an open flame is a flower.
Sony Bono
Running Time: 29 mins Color
Starring: Kevin Tighe, Gerald LeRoy, Julie Conners
This educational film presents the hidden dangers to especially young people in what they may initially deem a harmless activity, namely the use of drugs, most specifically narcotics. The every boy in this case is student John Scott, who is your average young man in that he is a good person, but is facing what he sees as some struggles in his day to day life, such as failing some classes which could kick him off the school track team, and feeling misunderstood by his often neglectful parents. In preparing for exams, he has in the past taken some bennies, which has caused him no long term harm. But in running into a former classmate named Pete, John's life could be forever changed. Pete dropped out of school and unknown to John is a drug pusher. Pete sees the signs in John as a potential customer, which Pete needs to feed his own livelihood. Pete knows that if he can get John to the stage of trying the hard drugs, such as heroin, he's got a customer for life in that John will be addicted. That process involves introducing John to his social group, including party girl Helen, who is one of his regular customers. Their parties start with alcohol and marijuana which will dull the senses and thus impair the ability to make rational decisions. Although marijuana is not addictive in and of itself, it is a drug upon which users become psychologically dependent. Even if John gets hooked on narcotics and comes out the other side by whatever fashion clean and sober, he may always feel the urge, rationalizing such choices.
Running Time: 29 mins Color
Starring: Kevin Tighe, Gerald LeRoy, Julie Conners
This educational film presents the hidden dangers to especially young people in what they may initially deem a harmless activity, namely the use of drugs, most specifically narcotics. The every boy in this case is student John Scott, who is your average young man in that he is a good person, but is facing what he sees as some struggles in his day-to-day life, such as failing some classes which could kick him off the school track team, and feeling misunderstood by his often neglectful parents. In preparing for exams, he has in the past taken some bennies, which has caused him no long term harm. But in running into a former classmate named Pete, John's life could be forever changed. Pete dropped out of school and unknown to John is a drug pusher. Pete sees the signs in John as a potential customer, which Pete needs to feed his own livelihood. Pete knows that if he can get John to the stage of trying the hard drugs, such as heroin, he's got a customer for life in that John will be addicted. That process involves introducing John to his social group, including party girl Helen, who is one of his regular customers. Their parties start with alcohol and marijuana which will dull the senses and thus impair the ability to make rational decisions. Although marijuana is not addictive in and of itself, it is a drug upon which users become psychologically dependent. Even if John gets hooked on narcotics and comes out the other side by whatever fashion clean and sober, he may always feel the urge, rationalizing such choices.
John, an erstwhile young high school student on the track team with a pretty girlfriend, a nice car, and a lot going for him, falls in with the wrong crowd. He starts to smoke, has a beer, and before he knows it he's smoking a joint, which of course leads to heroin. Soon he's selling his mother's silverware to pay for his fix. Eventually, he gets caught and is sent to treatment.... which works beautifully. Or does it? The ending is unclear. No dialogue from the actors in this, just a heavy-handed narrator. Watch out for the sinister bongo music.
Running Time: 69 mins Black & White
Dave O Brien The lives of all who are involved with the evil weed are inevitably shattered. Depression era youths experience bizzare frightening side effects and terrible trajedies. One youngster becomes so addicted to the killer weed that a judge orders him to be committed for life to a mental hospital! Dr. Carroll advises us to not incur the same tragedy. Infamous camp classic. Assassin of Youth -AKA- Marihuana 1936 B&W 60 mins Harley Wood Dir. Dwayne Vesper. See the truth about the smoke from hell! Weird orgies! Wild parties! Unleashed passions! Naive teenagers smoke marihuana, attend a beach party and take off their clothes. Naturally tragedy ensues; one girl drowns, another finds herself with child. Fine moral lesson for the whole family. Cocaine Fiends 1936 B&W 60 mins Noel Madison Drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into cocaine fiends. They plunge into degradation after experimentation with the white powder of evil.
Running Time: 75 mins Color
Starring: Ann Lindsay, Yolanda Morino
The dangers and evils of the mind-bending hallucinogen LSD are luridly presented in this psuedo-educational exploitation drama.