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Reefer Madness
Reefer Madness is a feature film morality tale of how reefer addiction ruins
the life of its young protagonist and gets a lot of other people killed, sexually
compromised and committed to lunatic asylums. Aims to show the harm done to
American youth by smoking the drug Marijuana / dope / narcotics.
Parents at anti-drug meeting. Dope plants found by police, joints made. Smuggling
devices used to traffic Heroin, opium and morphine - fake cases, hollowed
out heels of shoes, hollow shaving brushes, books, watches. US Gov. agent
displays barrels which were seized carrying heroin. Drugs burned in incinerator.
11:07:39 Fictional story begins.
221336 04:16:23 - 04:17:03 1936 SIL B/W
A Million Dreams Go UP In Smoke In Narcotics Bonfire
Ca. 05Oct36
Chicago police dumping & stacking bundles bags of dope, dousing w/ gas.
Dope poured from can; large hashish pipes inspected. Bonfire ignited and burning.
Illegal Drugs Destroyed;
Manhunt - US seizes Twenty in Dope Ring / FBN Head appeal
Agents carrying bags of narcotics and arrested men out of building and into
waiting van. Interior offices with agents. Joseph Martin, Director of Federal
Bureau of Narcotics discusses the Bureau’s work and offers a reward
for the capture of Lepke / Gurrah / Buchalter.
League of Nations - The League at Work Reel 2
La Societé à L'Oeuvre (1937) Explores history of and explains
the various functions of each branch of the League of Nations.
INCLUDING:
15:45:16 - Campaign against dangerous drugs / narcotics. Junks in harbour.
Meeting of three men and one woman re drugs. Old Scotland yard ? Shots heroin
/ hashish and other drugs. Smuggling.
15:46:19
Even in this Day and Age: A Review of Major Forces Tending to Produce Social
Breakdown.
Title card: The purpose of this picture is to encourage THOUGHT, DISCUSSION,
ACTION; to remedy demoralizing influences.
INCLUDING:
04:25:30 Cars on Westside Highway, NYC. Neon signs advertising alcohol, liquor.
Alcohol poured in glass by shaky hands, spills, CU drunken hands can’t
open car with keys, CU steering wheel & hand grabbing. Limp hand in hospital
clothes put under blanket. CU Cigarette burning. Smoking cigarette in ashtray.
CU newspaper article with ‘doped cigarette’ underlined, “Marijuana”.
Hand holds cigarette w/ smoke.
04:27:20
[Drugs - High School Boys Smoke Marijuana]
1943. 3 High school boys taking sneak smoke outside stone house. Inhale marijuana
& one chokes on it. Pass joint around. Filmed at 37th St & 1st Ave,
NYC.
Narcotics
Waxey Gordon Arrested as Dope Czar
Under titles Gordon and another man under arrest walked down corridor - CU
Gordon and others under arrest. Packages of narcotics - heroin. 220708 05:38:43
- 05:48:37 1950s ? SIL B/W
Native Street in Asia
INCLUDING:
05:44:36 Men lay in opium den smoking pipe. Pinups of American film stars
on wall. Drug taking paraphernalia.
05:45:15 Man prepares heroin fix. Mixing powder with liquid - stirring with
syringe. CU Man injects himself in leg.
05:46:53
Drug Addiction Pt. 1 of 2
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Large lawn outside college or University & three couples into convertible
jalopy to drive-in & getting served ice cream cones & milkshakes.
14:04:55 Young man stocking shoe boxes in store from ladder; another grabs
a camera & puts under shirt & walks out. Black woman panhandling in
neighborhood, older Black woman gives her a coin. Older boy grabs young boy
& mugs him on busy street, stealing his violin case.
14:05:29 Young man sits in chair smoking w/ drugs & spoon beside him.
CU pills.
14:05:51 Illustration of poppy, opium, morphine & heroin. Diagram of man
w/ needle & showing effect on brain, heart & nervous system. Large
needles shown. Drawing of marijuana & hemp plant. Cocoa plant & heart
beating, diagram of violent man. Sleeping man.
14:07:55 CU sign Narcotics Bureau on door, opens & agent goes in w/ arrested
man, young man puts paper into typewriter. Slums w/ washing on line &
car parked. Ext.of brownstone houses w/ some lights on inside. Pan over windows,
man sitting reading & smoking. Int. & older man at desk reading thick
book; takes out drug paraphenalia. Man rings apartment no. 24 bell; young
man w/ bow tie comes to door, takes out wallet & gives man wad of bills
& gets drug vial.
14:09:03 Two boys exhanging money for drugs in doorway in daytime; olderman
in dark glasses takes money & gives drugs. Man in hardware store shoplifts,
chased down street by owner & into arms of cop who grabs him. Searches
him & finds bent spoon, bag of pills
14:10:12 Courtroom SOF “...heroin.” “Let’s see your
arms”. “How long you taken heroin?” “I smoked marijuana.”
14:11:05 Five guys around candles smoking marijuana; “Come on, its my
turn next...where did you get it?” “Gee I feel awful funny...I
feel kinda sick.” Three of them steal case of soda pop, break bottles
on window & drink cutting themselves w/ the glass.
14:12:05 Two guys into cafe booth & sit down, one pulls out heroin; dares
other to try it. Continued...
Drugs; 1950s Stereotypes; Juvenile Delinquency; Theft; Stealing; Petty Crime;
Criminals; Ghetto; Blacks; Poverty; Americana; Economics;
Drug Addiction Pt. 2 of 2
Men sorting capsules of heroin, buying & exchanging money. Man won’t
give cut to guy who got him started. Seller says to use a needle so he doesn’t
waste it. Shooting up in bathroom at work; begins to steal from grocery. Unemployed
& he sits on doorstep, only friends are other addicts. Mother making bed
“knows something is wrong.” “Marty, have you seen the pinking
shears I bought last week” She’s washing dishes & he’s
at table, she threatens to take him to the doctor. He steals from her purse
& leaves.
14;16:34 Ext. staggering around service station w/ cold chills etc., runs
into bathroom.
14:17:00 Int. at pusher’s; he sits next to him on couch, “you
wouldn’t help your mother out of a rat hole.” Tries to get Marty
to bring in customers; he agrees & takes marijuana to get guys hooked.
14:18:16 Unpacking boxes of fish on ice, pure heroin in tubes; mixed w/ milk
sugar & resold w/in syndicate. Pusher puts into capsules. Junkies on street
in doorway selling. Marty washing windows; shoplifting. In court again. Mother
appeals to judge “He’s a good boy.” Sentenced to 1 year
in jail, but will send him to hospital instead if he agrees.
14:21:20 US Public Health Service pamphlet. Marty in hospital & working;
playing checkers, baseball. Back on street & still shunned, walks down
street. Other addicts only ones that will talk to him. Marty into out-patient
clinic, other addict on street. Cutting drugs on table & buying from syndicate.
Money changing hands.
14:23:27 Happy young people out of building & couples walk off together.
One guy meets pusher who tries to get him to take a couple of joints. Breaks
away & runs to police car & points guy out. Group of young people
laughing.
Drugs; 1950s Stereotypes; Juvenile Delinquency; Theft; Stealing; Petty Crime;
Criminals; Ghetto; Blacks; Poverty; Americana; The Mob; Economics;
Warning re classified information on head of film.
16:21:23 Experimental Compound MER-17 (Frenquel) - New Blocking Agent Aganst
The Development of LSD-25 Psychosis Pt. 1 of 3
By Howard D. Fabing, M.D., Cincinnati, Ohio Thanks to William E. Hillard M.D.
for assisting. LSD-25 supplied by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Division, Sandoz
Chemical Works, Inc. New York, NY. MER-17 supplied by Medical Research Dept.,
The Wm. S. Merrell Co. Cincinatti, O.
16:22:27 Man goes to clock, turns around & speaks to camera: “The
object of this presentation... we have used two healthy graduate students
but time only permits showing one.” MCU of two smiling students.
LSD shown given at 9:30 to both w/ liquid. After hour interviewed, feeling
almost naseous. Dry throat; “I have to maintain my attention.”
Three hour & asking if he knows why they separated the two fellows.
16:24:46 Man asks paranoid question; then the doctor asked him why he asked
Ronnie the question. He thinks was disguising the paranoia. Asked about visual
phenomona; he tries to describe the patterns & colors. He forgets the
question. Wants to get rid of his nervousness & apprehension.
16:28:19 Smokes cigarette. Tries to answer questions. Answers some.
16:29:59 3:45 Six hours later. Knows where he is. Doesn’t feel elated
or depressed. “I guess I am sad, depressed.” Continued...
Experimental Compound MER-17 (Frenquel) - New Blocking Agent Aganst The Development
of LSD-25 Psychosis Pt. 2 of 3
“I lost time perception.” Asked if anxious - “I’m
awful nervous.” What’s your mood? “I’m apprehensive”
“Just trying to stay in contact w/ reality.”
16:32:46 07:30 Can you describe what you were a few hours back? “Just
mass confusion...not aware of pleasantness or unpleasantness.
16:33:25 “Well Ronnie, do you think the picture shows the whole story
of your LSD-25 experience? “Not by a long shot.” Reads what he
wrote the next day about the experience. I decided to do as little as possible
so I’d make no mistakes. Felt that night that the tv was talking in
“loaded phrases.”
16:35:03 Calendar page for November 1954 “During the next week Ronnie
was give a 5 milligram tablet twice daily... In front of chart MD explains
how the blocking agent Meratran-17 works.
16:36:19 Ronnie given 1/10 milligram of LSD w/ water at 10 after, at half
hour intervals asked for his reaction. Slowly becomes restless but still under
control, time doesn’t distort.
16:39:15 After 3 hrs but doesn’t feel as nervous as before. Still can
follow the conversation.
16:40:35 “Same systems but it just doesn’t happen.”
Experimental Compound MER-17 (Frenquel) - New Blocking Agent Aganst The Development
of LSD-25 Psychosis Pt. 3 of 3
Ronnie comes in, sits down & asked to read what he wrote after second
experiment. Describes both experiments.
16:42:04 Doctor as though talking to group answers questions on dosage for
blocking. Says from 10 thru 100 mg. Has done testing on 8 subjects so far
w/ double-blind testing; all successful. Questioned about Clinical applications;
says works w/ some acute schizophrenics; alcoholic hallucinoges; etc. Says
continuing work on mescaline, cannabis & others.
16:43:58 Talks about “...18Dec54 Ronnie drank a second 100 gamma of
LSD-25 w/o protection; 4 1/2 hrs he was in an almost catatonic state. At that
time 10 mg MER-17 was given intraveneously & given again 15 min. later
& brought back to almost normal state. Shows film clip of Ronnie in catatonic
state; questions him. Few responses.
16:46:30 Injection given. Other doctor alongside. 3 minutes later questioned
& beginning to come out. Ronnie says less confused. Questioning continues.
Ronnie says there’s been a reorganization, a getting things into place.
16:48:05 2nd injection given. “...like waking up from a fever.”
Questioned after 30 minutes from the first injection. Then questioned after
an hour. Smokes a cigarette. “I’m no longer anxiety ridden now.”
16:50:28 Later, Ronnie speaks of his subjective reaction during the three
experiments; reads from notes describing his feelings of being on a flower
bed w/ flowers bursting in a regular pattern. Then things seemed to clear
up and I felt sane but I knew I wasn’t. I was a stranger in this world...
I realized that what happened to me in the few minutes after the injections
was significant... all of a sudden I found myself willing to cooperate...”
The End.
Schizophrenic Model Psychosis Induced By LSD 25 Pt. 2 of 2
aka LSD: Experiment in Terror (1955)
Doctor asks him to taste malted milk so see if any distortion in sensation.
Bill says its the same distortion throughout the experince. “It’s
lopsided...I seem to be listening to you & being the audience listening
to me.” They discuss food; he doesn’t want food as he is feeling
fine and that food would interrupt the experience. Doctor says in a few hours
this whole thing will leave him.
17:07:17 Bill tries to explain the special meaning this experience is having
for him.
17:07:45 2pm “he is flying high” Again makes a drawing of the
same fellow as before. Bill says he feels like time is going backwards. Sketches
w/ the charcoal w/ his left hand. Questioned while he’s sketching. “I’ll
never get over it. I’ll never be the same.” Talks of beauty.
17:09:52 Bill gets very emotional. Doctor leads him in drawing. Picture very
rigid. Asked if more difficult now to draw he says “Its a lot of fun.”
Doctor ask him to compare the drawings. Bill says he doesn’t see any
real difference; however very different.
17:12:13 Bill describing colors & what he’s seeing in terms of doctor’s
face. “I don’t know how much I’m seeing, and how much I’m
pretending to see.” “I’ve had some sort of entrance into
an emotional life.”
17:13:21 Concentrating on his hands; describes one as heavier, more positive.
“I feel these lovely colors vibrating all over me.” Tries to describe
it for the doctor. Completely into himself, smiling & says he can’t
describe it, begins to cry. Doctor claps his hand and asks what it does. He
says it interrupts the experience.
17:15:13 3:05 “This is where the LSD experience normally goes into decline,
but Bill is still at it.” Bill: “such benevolence...I feel as
though I have no enemies in the world...its marvelous.” Questioned about
the messianic experience that he previously had described. Doctor describes
what Bill’s experiences on ending the experiment.
aka LSD: Experiment in Terror (1955)
Nicholas A. Bercel, M.D., Department of Physiology, University of Southern
California Medical School
Filmed by Confidential Telepictures Inc. Material furnished through the courtesy
of Sandoz Pharmaceutical Co. (Prof. E. Rothlin, Basel, Switzerland & Mr.
Harry Althouse, San Francisco...)
16:53:45 CU LSD vial & syringe. Doctor sharpening needle w/ another man
watching prepares LSD in a cup; narration “...when in 1943 Hoffmann
became temporarily psychotic thru accidental ingestion of the drug...”
“TV’s Paul Coates of Confidential File undertook to film a model
psychosis in our laboratory in an attempt to impress upon the public thru
a case of artificial insanity that the mentally ill is not inhabited by the
devil.”
16:54:24 Doctor sits down w/ volunteer Bill at 12 o’clock. Gives cup
of 100 mg. Asks how it tasted and looked. He gives name, address & says
he’s a painter. (William Malark (sp?), 3540 Las Paso, Los Angeles 65.
Age 34). He’s given materials to sketch w/ charcoal the portrait.
16:56:39 12:17 & Bill lays down & wired for testing. Print out of
EG & various pens. Then back into chair & describes feelings of floating,
sees colors, etc. Doctor questions about feeling of body etc. Bill laughs,
describes rug pulsating. Doctor asks if Bill feels sorry that he’s not
enjoying the experiment.
17:00:22 Again drawing w/ charcoal, asks if its purple. When told its black
Bill then says he can’t explain what he wants to explain.
17:02:07 Talks a lot trying to explain what he’s hearing ie. singing
of angels; what he’s seeing.
17:02:45 They offer him food but he says its repugnant. “I want to feed
off this feeling, this joy, which seems to be coming from everything.”
17:03:40 “I feel that I’m perfectly adequate, I mean I can take
care of myself from now on. I have no hunger, my sensation is perfect. Its
just a wonderful state.” Doctor pushes him to eat. Bill explains that
he wants to have the experience go on & on & on. Continued...
Night, detective reading statement to police & others inside ballroom
(?) before raid.
10:07:10 Man & woman walked(?) to car; police man in & car leaves.
Policeman on car radio. Cars leave.
Men break lock on front door of house, go inside, into apartment & also
up stairs. Searching room, inside hats etc. Several suspects in beds. Detectives
go thru closet, boxes w/ drug paraphenalia.
10:08:05 Booking Black suspects, fingerprinting. Man covering eyes with arm.
CU pistol. Evidence on white paper: shells, cigarettes, pills, pipe, rolling
papers.
10:08:33 Police walking arrested men past camera, into station for booking.
[Police & Community Meeting - California] [Part 1 of 2]
[Produced by UCLA for US Dept. of Mental Health - ‘The Social Seminar’
series.]
VS meeting of police officers & community representatives in Huntington
Beach, California - raise issues of concern re alienation of police from community
- drugs etc. Police chief “a police officer has no business being a
social services worker...”. Young people disagree. Police re reality
of job “we’re not professional bleeding hearts...we throw people
in the slammer”. Group discusses lack of facilities for teenagers -
policeman explains that youth club was shut down due to stabbings, drug sales
& kidnap of girl held for three days & “raped continously by
a motorcycle group”.
04:09:19 Man discusses deterioration of town w/ cutaway to still shots of
vacant land filled w/ new houses - street scenes - many walled communities
rather than unified city; sign ‘Huntington Beach - Patrolled by Aircraft’
- helicopter in sky. Mayor points out funding secured for new library &
park.
04:11:32 Teenage girl “I have a very strong dislike for police bordering
on hate from personal experience”. Police chief partly blames bad PR
& media image, compared to fire department. Woman high school secretary
refers to incident of police narcotics agent infiltrating high school posing
as student & went on to arrest three students for possession of drugs
- upset school life - one source of problems between police & community
- ”the kids wouldn’t trust the teachers any more”. Policemen
ask why teachers would keep quiet when they are aware of illegal drug use
in school.
[Police & Community Meeting - California] [Part 2 of 2]
School teacher talks re students loss of faith in teachers. Policemen ask
why teachers would keep quiet when they are aware of illegal drug use in school
- “I don’t see why a school campus should become a sanctuary for
a crime”. Student asks whether anyone’s minds will be changed
by meeting - Police chief “if the remainder of this meeting continues
on the same level that we’re at right now I will report to the [police
dept.] staff meeting tomorrow that we had another B.S. [bullshit] session”.
Teenage girl gets animated “are you willing and humble enough to say
that maybe someone else has a better idea...?” Meeting chairman asks
who would be willing to lead new community initiative. Group members asked
what they think will come of the meeting - most say very little achieved.
Drugs - narcotics
CU man smoking. ( b/w )
Psychedelic light effects - flashing lights - hands - bodies.
08:14:37 liquid dropping from pipette into jar. Shot purposely made out of
focus to create effect. Drug ampoules. Psychedelic effect on faces.
Following black and white
08:15:57 Hands filling syringe from ampoule. Water dripping from pipette.
Ampoules with LSD on label . Syringe filled.
08:18:50 Unid man to camera (mos) Man with two young men on beds.
08:20:06 Controlled drug experimentation ? LSD ? Young man lying on couch
covering eyes - drug paraphernalia on table. Young man is watched by male
nurse.
Drugs. - Narcotics LSD
Doctor interviews young man (B/W MOS) Young man lying on couch intercut. Controlled
drug experimentation ?
08:23:13 Col - Liquid dropping from pipette - intentionally out of focus to
create effect.
08:23:50 CU screw on microscope - pull back to scientist looking down scope
- zoom in. Liquid in jar changing colour. with use of air and centrifugal
force.
08:26:05 Drugs / heroin on saucer - psychedelic light effects.
08:27:50 Weird lighting - man on sitar - drums - lighting attempts to show
effects of drugs on brain “trip“.
Drugs - London
Night Shots - Boots all night dispensing chemist - crowds of young men and
women getting prescriptions filled. Young woman with paper cup - methadone
?
06.08.45 CU Coca Cola neon sign in Piccadilly Circus - West End street scenes
- traffic - flashing lights. Old woman feeding pigeons / birdsX 221326 07:31:18
- 07:40:19 1963 SD B/W
Harlem Crusader [Part 1 of 3]
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - edited for classrooms version of NBC feature
Manhattan Battleground, produced by William Jersey following White social
worker Dan Murrow of American Friends Services Committee & his efforts
to improve poor Black & Puerto Rican neighborhood, New York City.
07:31:26 High pan across East Harlem, kids run acros rooftops - Murrow on
roof, tells kids to be careful. Titles. Looks down on 111th Street. Blacks
wear bandanas, fight in street w/ batons. CU street sign Park Ave. / 111 St.
Pan down past elevated railroad to street scene, young men play ball games.
VO re gang fights repaced by drug problem & “poverty of opportunity”.
Murrow along street, gives encouragement to young Black man re job opportuniy
he has found for him.
07:34:32 Storekeeper tells Murrow he’s worried about dope addicts: “they’re
not bad people, they’re really sick people”. Further shots Murrow
at work on streets, advises men on coming off dope & finding work.
07:37:22 Murrow arrives home, greets wife & baby daughter; talking on
phone. Night, people at window. Murrow chats w/ man who came off dope - reads
Murrow poem he wrote “I’m Not Afraid of Tomorrow, I Have See Yesterday”;
Murrow tells him “the Boss Upstairs” would be “tipping his
hat right now”.
07:39:50 Street scene w/ kids playing. Group of Black men on street in social
group / gang ‘The Miracles’.
Harlem Crusader Pt. 2 of 3
Meeting of The Miracles group addressed by ex-gang leader John Torres who
helped Murrow clean up neighbourhood, gives pep talk & hands out rolled
up newspapers for gang fight in back alley - lead pipes no longer used - accepted
as way of young men letting off steam.
07:42:32 Murrow in apartment of Miracle gang members inc. Torres. Murrow talks
to young boy who thinks his brother has stolen his camera to pay for drugs
& talks w/ boy’s mother [Puerto Rican]. He recovers camera from
pawn shop; takes boys play in water spray from fire hydrant.
07:45:20 Meeting of Miracles gang - planning send-off for Murrow who is leaving
for college in Boston. Torres praises his dedication. Street scenes w/ heavy
rain. Torres dictates farewell letter to John, girlfriend writing - cut to
Murrow crossing road w/ disabled man Joey to interview for clerical job. Woman
behind desk very friendly “you come very highly recommended” -
Joey looks glum. Joey & Murrow talk on street outside.
Harlem Crusader Pt. 3 of 3
Miracles members on street shopping for going-away gifts for Murrow; barter
w/ vendor for umbrella. Murrow & wife at leaving party, guests sing “For
He’s A Jolly Good Fellow”. Murrow hugs Black & Puerto Rican
young people he has helped. Gifts presented to Murrow, wife & baby - opens
umbrella. Kids upset to see him go.
07:54:10 Elevated railroad & tilt down to street.
07:54:20 Murrow in apartment on last day in Harlem - possessions packed. Murrow
on telephone “Boston’s going to be a territory of Puerto Rico”
- wave goodbye to neighbours. Moving. Murrow on street - goes to say goodbye
to old lady & various friends - breaks down in tears - final farewells
& away in car. Street scenes kids playing.
07:58:29 The End credits.
[Harlem, New York City - Part Two]
Harlem street scenes, buildings and shopfronts.
Sign “street closed school days play area”. School entrance with
civil defense sign - kids come out of school and play in street - black and
white children together. Firemen hosing burning building - blazing flames
from balcony - people next door look out of window and crowd looks on from
street - teenage boys laugh - black firemen get on fire engine. Sign ‘Alexander
Hamilton Houses” by site under construction and tower blocks nearby.
Sign for bargain meat. Luncheonette. Tracking shot past derelict shops. Manny’s
billiards. Little Jim’s Fish & Chip shop. Hair salon. Laundry shop.
Religious shop advertising perfume. Daniel’s Billiards. Rena’s
French dry cleaners “stain specialist. Tower blocks. Black children.
Amsterdam News newspaper headquarters and headlines. Venice Bar next to Amsterdam
News office with sign in window barring unescorted women (re prostitution);
“this is a Raided premises - Police Dept.”. Club Baby Grand. Frank’s
Restaurant. Sunset movie theatre marquee showing films Shocking Paris Scandal,
Blue Beard, Fury At Smuggler’s Bay & Gun The Man Down. Tracking
shot past shopfronts, Square Deal Market. Apollo Theatre, marquee and posters
advertising Gloria Lynne, Jimmy Smith concerts. Playland games arcade exterior
and interior with rides, shooting gallery. Street with traffic. Bowling Harlem
Lanes. Palm Cafe with loans company upstairs. Rudy Williams rock band advertised
in window. Jazz musicians photos in window. Rhode Loans pawnshop. Club Lido.
House of Hope drug addict rehab centre. Upper Park Avenue Baptist Church.
Poster for Mississipi Relief Committee for homeless. High angle street and
traffic. 125th Street subway station and train past. Handwritten sign “The
Frost Gospelaires”. Upper Park Ave. Baptist Church & welcome sign
re anti-crime and anti-narcotic action. Bridge of 125th Street subway station
and street signs nearby. Grand Union Hotel with flashing sign. Ladies’
and children's clothes shop.
[Drug Expert, Dr. Hans Halbach, World Health Organization]
Pull back from large gothic church spire w/ mountains behind to show lake
and traffic across bridge. Another view across Lake Lucerne, city & boats.
Large modern building (World Health Organization) of glass & concrete,
zoom in on windows & geometric patterns of architecture. MS of Man smoking
in front.
18:03:33 Slate Nov67 Dr. Halbach, WHO, Geneva, Swiss. Hans Halbach stands
in front of WHO & talks to camera (MOS). MCU of Halbach, drug expert.
18:11:27 Clapper board. Another man on lakeshore talking to camera (MOS),
CU. People walking behind on foot bridge. Pull back to traffic (only few seconds-
w/ trolley, buildings, cars, bicycles across bridge.
Haight - Ashbury
Sea lapping on sandy beach - Golden Gate Bridge - shoreline. Street scenes
- trams and traffic. Top shots San Francisco - buildings, skyscrapers, residential
areas - looking over city to sea.
02:04:08 Street Sign Haight- Ashbury - young men / youths on street - pedestrians
- various people chatting - hippies. Drug deal ?
220465 02:06:10 - 02:08:13 1968 Si col
Drugs - Border Crossing Tia Juana
Car searched at border - illegal Mexican immigrant removed from trunk and
detained - suitcase searched. Cars queue to cross border - border guards question
occupants. Searching cars . Official with bags full of dope / narcotics /
marijuana / hash.
Drugs - Harbour - Medical Clinic Haight - Ashbury California
Harbour - Swedish passenger ship in dock - Dockside activity - tracking shot
from car through street, two young people hitching lift - into car . Aerial
views city - Golden Gate bridge - coastline. Harbour - trawler at anchor .
02:14:15 Police ? look to be questioning young long haired man in back of
car. Youth taken into bulding
(very dark)
02:14:45 Group of squirrel monkeys running around cage - man in white coat
catches one in net. CU Monkey held tightly in hand as he tries to bite lab
technician. Monkeys used to test effects of LSD
02:16:34 Exterior building, sign on door David Smith MD and Assoc. Haight
Ashbury Medical Clinic.
Street scenes - pedestrians - youth, hippies. Street sign Haight Ashbury.
Young people walking along. Psychedelic posters.
Drugs - Border Crossing
Cars pouring through road crossing at border - queues of cars - border guards
search cars. Interior customs post - cars searched .
02.21.49 Haight Ashbury streets - people hanging around on street corners
- tracking shot - hippies - Haight Bootery - young people hanging around.
Drugs - Stanhope Research Institute
Sign “ Life Sciences Building “ shots of building. Sign Stanford
Research Institute - cars in carpark - shots building . Japanese garden with
statues
Drugs, Border Crossing, Smuggling, Love-In, Airdrop, Boats
US - Mexican Border. people at desk of customs. Cars being searched. Van,
Volkswagen, frisking kids. Searching tyres in trunk. POV plane taking off.
Love-In 14Apr68. Tapia Park, LA County. Cars & people. Hippies, smoking
dope / narcotics / marijuana. Sound stage. Fabric banners & psychedelic
posters. Loudspeakers; dancing; drummer; singer; Boat harbor with condominiums.
Neon & go-go signs, Bonnie & Clyde, Up Down Staircase; Aerials of
LA at night.
03:53:01 14Apr68 Raven’s Hollow VA More Love in. Light aircraft takes
off. Light aircraft flies over grassy field, drops package - repeated takes.
Shadow of plane flying over scrubby land. POV plane landing at airport
Prison, Drugs, UCLA, Smuggling, Love-In, Yachts, Boats
Middle class in minimum security prison. Fashions of 1960s. Women inmates
gardening. Ext. of prison. LS of prison complex w/ dormitory buildings. Handball
courts. UCLA campus & students between classes walking & lounging.
Dickson Plaza sign. Reading outdoors. Sign: UCLA. Prison recreation &
men lifting weights. POV past sailing & motor yachts. Man in living room
of condominium. Ext. along ocean beach. Women outdoors at prison. Sunset &
boats at anchor, Mexican bay. Beach from water. Love-in, hippies, drums &
group. Flower children. Police arresting & hauling off guy in handcuffs,
people follow. Horsemounted police leaving to applause. Guitar players.
220598 06:09:40 - 06:22:16 1968 Si col
Drugs
Young boy with donkey in open countryside. Man talking to armed police and
pointing.
06:11:00 Tent encampment - Arab men with children.
06:12:15 Two Arab men standing on street talking - street scene. Two men walking
along hand in hand (gay.)
Back streets of city .
06:13:16 Archaeological remains. Pillars - carving - ruins
06:15:34 Sign on building Plan Vert - locals in street.
06:16:56 Unidentified man to camera [mos]
Drugs
06:22:25 Two unidentified men talking in front of wall chart ?
06:25:26 London street / suburban - terraced housing - cars down street. Zoom
in on front door, number 88. Sign Beaufort Street London S.W. Woman going
into number 88 - Zoom in on door signs for Doctor Geoffrey Gray and Dr. Peter
Chapple. Young woman entering
06:27:10 Unidentified man doing piece to camera sitting on side of Canal /
river. [mos]
Family Films / Johnson-Nyquist Prods.
Title card: ‘You are about to see a true story portrayed by the people
who actually lived this nightmare’.
Brief shot of Woodstock-style festival. Talking heads sequence - vars young
people commenting on drug culture and peer pressure [most are / were drug
users themselves]. “Everybody’s using some form of drug - alcohol,
nicotine - everybody in the entire world is getting stoned” - “It’s
easy to start on drugs, it’s easy to stay on drugs, until you start
realising something’s happening” - “Before you start taking
drugs you should read the newspaper, read books...look at some of the people
you know that take drugs”.
22:03:21 Subject of film introduced - 20 yr old Mark Lindley - “for
three of his teenage years he has been drug dependant” - carpentry work
on house - family around dinner table, zoom in on Mark. Psychologist Dr Herbert
Shiro on difficulty of persuading kids off drugs.
22:04:15 Mark to camera - “I took them because I enjoyed them...LSD
over two hundred times” - psychedelic montage - Mark running through
park w/ swirling graphics. Interview w/ mother - “watching his eyes”
- and father “we caught him and his friends rolling marijuana”.
Mark on effects of marijuana.
22:06:05 Dr Shiro - “parents lack a real enjoyment or an appreciation
of pleasure”. CU variety of pills out of tube into hand - uppers and
downers - Mark “went to sleep on Friday night after being awake for
four and a half days and slept until Monday morning”.
22:08:53 Photo of Mark during drug phase w/ thick curly hair and sideburns
- parents embarrassed to go out with him and angry at strangers reactions
- “the hate would be so apparent in their faces but at the same time
it made me so angry at him and so ashamed”. More psychedelic graphics
- Mark interviewed through distorted lens.
The Youth Drug Scene [Part 2]
Family Films / Johnson-Nyquist Prods.
Dr Shiro “we will know what LSD does when the current generation of
LSD users comes to autopsy...”. CU needle; Mark talks about moving on
to methodrine shots and being caught w/ marijuana - psychedelic montage -
police car down street. Interview w/ probation officer re Mark’s disrespect
for authority. Father re deterioration in Mark’s physical appearance
- on probation for three years - stuck at home w/ no marijuana “to ease
the nothingness”.
22:14:32 Mark: “I’d take methadrine one night and LSD the next
night and smoke opium and hash and weed and DMT mixed with weed, and pretty
soon I started to think my mind was going, I was pretty paranoid”. Dr
Shiro on Mark’s arrival barefoot in his office - having thoughts of
suicide - “He wanted death”.
22:15:55 More talking heads: long haired young hippy guy - “Drugs are
fun, drugs are really fun when you’re having fun but after a while when
you take to many drugs they don’t get fun any more, y’know?”
Others re paranoia. “Before people start taking drugs they should look
into themselves”.
22:16:50 Dr Shiro “drugs must be combatted with pleasurable experiences”.
Mark recalls realisation that he “needed God to help me” - montage
w/ cross. Probation officer re surprise when Mark apologised for behaviour
after becoming born-again Christian. Mark reading Bible - “he wouldn’t
leave the house without that Bible”. Mark at work on new job building
house - hammering nails - distraction from drugs.221041 22:19:22 - 22:28:07
1970 c SD COL
The Youth Drug Scene [Part 3]
Family Films / Johnson-Nyquist Prods.
Mark and family walking to church; zoom in on Mark during service. Dr Shiro:
“The problem is that most people, parents and teenagers includes, feel
lonely”. Mark at church youth group and choir. Mark driving along highway;
“I would want to maybe run and jump off a cliff if I hadn’t had
the Lord to go to...”. EXT Torrance High School - Mark in. Mark discussing
w/ his teacher. Interview w/ sports coach re Mark’s pre-drugs potential
as an athlete; “Mark could have been college material”. Mark playing
catch and swimming w/ his brother; walking on the beach w/ brother and sister.
22:25:40 Mark playing pool w/ father and brother; “recently I was upset
about my girlfriend and he talked to me and told me things I didn’t
think a Dad would know”. Family eating dinner; “we have a lot
of fun”. Narration states that despite being off drugs for two years,
daily life is still a struggle for Mark. Beach scenes.
22:27:38 End credits; film features the song “I’ve Got Something
to Sing About”.
Social Issues. Drug Abuse. 1960s. Hippies. Teenagers. Acid / Pot / Grass /
Speed / Dope.
The Nixon Years: Change Without Chaos R1 of 3
INCUDING:
01:06:07 Police & ambulances gather bodies on US city streets. Arrests.
Display of illegal drugs seized.
01:06:45 Nixon makes joint announcement w/ Ankara, Turkey re stopping heroin.
Opium poppy fields & CU. Aerial over docks; Agents seizing drugs from
various sources. Dogs & customs inspecting cars, luggage.
01:08:00 “This is one area where we cannot have budget cuts because
we must wage...total war...problem of dangerous drugs. W/ Moynahan looking
at housing. Supermarket & food relief. Poverty & kids; women &
kids picketing. Nixon meeting w/ economic advisors & talking in generalities.
01:09:20 Nixon on TV to nation: “I am today ordering a freeze on all
prices & wages throughout the United States for a period of ninety days.”
Visuals of Cost of Living Council he has appointed w/ Nixon speech voice over.
Continued...
[Anti-drug film: ‘Just Say No’]
Actor Louis Gossett Jr. gives little speech ‘Just say no, I do’
OSI
INCLUDING:18:20:01 Titles
Man and woman play basketball in car parking lot. Man buys drugs from woman
in car. Plain clothes police arrest him (staged). OSI training lecture. CU
man pointing gun & shouting. Training exercise w/ pop-up targets.
18:22:25
X 221178 10:27:38 - 10:44:08 1982 SD B/W
[Colton Police “Swordfish” Surveillance (has date & time of
day burned in).]
4 men in office w/ long table counting stacks of money--captured on surveillance
camera. Suitcase opened of money; talk about how to count it all. Moving money
to end of table, laying out new money at other end. Talk about going to Columbia.
Man w/ Spanish accent. $125,000 counted. Another bag dumped on table. “This
was yesterday’s.” $200,000 totalled. Man speaking on phone in
Spanish.
10:43:00 Talks about problem of running the money through a machine for counting.
“Don Emilio”, The - Marijuana Confiscation Pt. 1 of 2 Variable
quality
Shot from helicopter of CG Sherman #720 towing 400 ft. freighter. Narration
describes that it is now near the CG pier. The cooperating individual has
disappeared. Sherman seen w/ tug (?) alongside. Don Emilio to dock w/ crew
looking out portholes.
09:01:50 Immigration & Naturalization agent w/ all the passports of the
crew. Men searching everyhing: paint cans in work area. Search area marked
after completion, hold ladder seen. Customs patrol dog used to search crew
sleeping area.
09:05:17 80-100 lb bags of marijuana in plastic & burlap. Bricks of hashish
seen. Some bags broken open. Some w/ Bogota written on strapping. Example
of contents.
09:07:29 Small armed CG boats patrolling while offloading the contraband so
no one can steal any. Rock asbestos has to be unloaded as more drugs thought
buried. Many bundles seen waiting to be unloaded onto dump trucks to be hauled
to burn-site. “...people could possibly sniff & get a high.”
Nets of bags unloaded by dock workers under armed guard.
09:12:?? Blacks loading pallets w/ bags of dope.
“Don Emilio”, The - Marijuana Confiscation Pt. 2 of 2
Black stevedores in hold talking about how to unload broken bags. Pallet lifted
by crane into dump truck. View of hold w/ broken bags. POV of dump truck lead
by Florida State Patrol & unmarked DEA car following as it leaves the
Coast Guard base. Helicopter following as well along freeway. POV could be
used for general stock footage though poor quality.
09:20:17 Sign: Broward County Incinerator #2. Truck in to weigh. Stack of
incinerator w/ smoke coming out. Armed agents around. Truck dumping bales
into pit opening.
09:22:19 CU of brick of marijuana being shown to the press. Grappling shovel
lifting & dumping, man shovels at edge. CU of Bogota wrapper w/ telephone
number. Armed guard watching bales.
09:24:31 CU of fire burning in incinerator as bundles are burned at 1750 degrees,
then moved to another burner; this done for a total of four burns; then charged
material moved out on a conveyor belt w/ water washing it. The cinders loaded
onto a truck. Stack of incinerator w/ smoke coming out. “Mixed in w/
garbage there is no way to distinguish the odor.”
[Prime Minister Banazir Bhutto & Asif Zardari visit White House - Dinner
Remarks]
06Jun89
INCLUDING:
13:01:18 Formal dinner w/ President Bush making welcoming remarks. “...long
live the friendship.” “...as we move towards a more stable &
prosperous Asia. We also talked at length about the plague of drug abuse which
afflicts both America & Pakistan; neither country can afford to allow
the scourge of drugs to continue...”
“...let me salute your role in Pakistan’s return to Democracy.”
Toast to Pakistan & Madame Prime Minister.
13:06:45 PM Bhutto replies “...we hold you in high esteem because of
your exceptional experience in world affairs, the moderation of your approach
to the problems facing mankind, and the wisdom & moral quality of you
statesmanship...” “I look forward to a new partnership between
your country & mine.” “I studied at Harvard, and I didn’t
know until tonight that Yale produced charming men...” Toast.220533
00:18:07 - 00:52:00 1989 / 1990 Sd col&b/w
Coast Guard Video - Drugs / Narcotics
00:18:07 night scuttling of M/V Langstrand #7-22 31Jul85
00:22:10 M/V Rosalind seized w/ drugs #1-12 20Jan89
00:24:06 FLIR video at Chub Cay, Bahamas #11-3 4Apr89
00:26:50 M/V Venture #5-1 5May89 unmanned & drugs
00:32:46 M/V Nerma & small boats #9-10 10Sep/89 seized w/ drugs
00:39:33 Chase of small boat #1-17 25Jan90
00:46:11 Airdrop of about 170 lbs of cocaine to Vieques Island, P.R. 17Mar90
NB - Majority of this tape is very variable quality and much has BITC of coastguards
video.
United States Army - School of the Americas - A Partnership in Democracy Pt.
1 of 2
INCLUDING:
13:20:18 Training against narco-terrorists in building. Mine detecting; footage
of Haiti overthrow of (SoF) “elected president by military coup &
the eventual restoration of that elected president by a US led multinational
military action” (Operation Uphold Democracy, 1994). Haiti army marching
past palace; Baby Doc Duvalier on balcony w/ raised arms cheering. people.
Casual military & police force; trucks of people thru streets. Soldiers
in back of army truck w/ rifles.
13:21:11
United States Army - School of the Americas - A Partnership in Democracy Pt.
2 of 2
INCLUDING:
13:25:31 Bundles of currency; superimposed over drug capturing footage.
13:25:55 David Beall, OAS - Executive Secretary of Counter-Narcotics Program
(CICAD) speaks to camera about trying to stop trafficking.
13:26:16 Helicopter, explosion; market & carrying wounded (stopping narcotics).
13:26:41 Colombian Police Officer, SOA Counter-Narcotics Graduate, talking
about drug traffickers w/ English VO. Instruction in capturing w/ army in
field, explosion, helicopter landing, training w/ rifles, in classroom.
13:27:28 Jeanne Kirkpatrick talks of SOA & breaking down stereotypes.
Others including Col. W. Navarro, Costa Rica, SOA graduate & Assistant
Commandant, talk about special ability of US military to influence.
13:28:19 Riot control training against violent people. Amb. to U.S., Roberto
Flores Bermudez, Hondorus. Men taking drugs off small private plane; stoning
someone; poverty; environment problems illustrated w/ barrels. Classroom scene.
13:29:15 Kirkpatrick: “School of the Americas offers a cost effective
time tested approach w/ immediate tangible results...” Scenes in classroom,
calisthenics, training in forest, medic, etc.
The following
items are not Public Domain and are licensed by the second, with a minimum
30 second charge.
LN 301-006
00:01:20 - 00:12:00 1995 SD COL Cannabis Rising R1
Driving POV on Dutch highway. Windmill exterior. CU windmill blades. VS ext.
and int. windmill and gears; water flowing through windmill. Street scene
in Amsterdam - people with umbrellas. Small boat on canal. Small marijuana
plants on houseboat window sill. Man on bike carrying mid sized marijuana
plant. VS marijuana growing in open in Amsterdam. Int. with Ed Rosenthal,
High Times reporter. VS Ed tending marijuana plants, book covers of books
by Ed, Ed on street in front of Cannabis Museum. VS Cannabis Museum. Ed on
houseboat smoking joint and talking about how the Dutch have integrated 1960’s
values into society. CU hands rolling joint. MS of Roos and introduction of
Roos as guide. Inside Dutch coffeehouse. Rolling joint, smoking, art work
re marijuana. Int. with American drug tourist - dying and going to heaven.
Int. with American woman. VS street scenes Amsterdam - trams, bikes. Nigh
shot Central Rail Station. Ed changing money. Zoom back from Palace. Int.
with American woman re lack of violence. Int. with American refugee re long
wait to get a gun. Ed smoking through pipe with Werner. Roos ordering a joint
in coffeehouse. Zoom back from coffeehouse exterior. CU coffeehouse drug menu.
VO from Ed re soft drugs/hard drugs. Int. with Mario Lapp, Dutch sociologist
on effects of Dutch quasi legalization. Young people in coffee shop. Night
shot crowds on Amsterdam street. Int. with Roos on “a whole new world.”
Driving POV in Dutch countryside. Sensi Seed company catalogue cover. Sensi
See headquarters at Cannabis Castle. Int. with owner Ben Dronkers. Shots of
seed growing operation and CU of catalog pages. VS marijuana buds and plants,
greenhouses
LN 301-006 00:23:55
- 00:36:10 1995 SD COL Cannabis Rising R3
Int. with Roos Leenders re Dutch marijuana policy and American policy. Street
int. with American drug tourist. Network news footage of American confiscation
operations - helicopters, raids, destroying marijuana plants. Int. with Dr.
Cohn, author of scientific study of effects of Dutch policy on hard and soft
drug use, on American attitudes towards the drug problem. Int. with Ed Rosenthal
about American drug policy and number of people in jail. Network footage of
drug arrests, bookings, trials, seizures, burning marijuana plants. Pull back
Cannabis museum, signage, tour through museum with Ben Dronkers. Old painting
with people smoking marijuana. Shots of many coffeeshops around Amsterdam,
with VO interview with Mario Lapp about substance use and abuse. Int. with
coffeeshop owner about dfifferent kinds of marijuana. CU Rs smoking a joint
for the first time. Roos talks about experience and not really liking it,
but people must have their own choice. Int. with Mario Lapp about Dutch drug
policy with various computer graphics illustrating slowing down of hard drug
use in Netherlands. Int. with Dr. Cohn about mistake of seeing availability
as use or fate. Int. with Mario Lapp re consensus on Dutch drug policy. Int.
with Dr. Cohn re American pressure. Int. with Roos about all the dangers of
modern life, so why can’t you smoke pot. Ed Rosenthal smoking - only
use it for research purposes. Int. with Werner re spiritual effects of marijuana.
Ed and Werner in marijuana garden talking about the eventual legalization
of marijuana - just like the Berlin Wall. VS of Amsterdam with end credits.
220405 05:43:59
- 05:55:30 1960s late or early 1970s Sd B/W
Free Farm
Radical Documentary
Mixture of stills and moving images.
Stills hippies working in field. Hippies playing drums and picnicking in grass.
Hell’s Angels or biker types. Preparing food. Children & babies.
Printing T-shirts with American flags, Free Vermont & Black Panther motifs
incl. raised fist.
Still Bobby Seale. Vietcong woman dancing for men. Leaflets re Panthers &
Woodstock. Harvesting vegetables & corn. Alternative art. Drumming and
campfire prepared. Poster re Paul H. Lawrence, undercover narcotic agent?
Cutting vegetables into pot.
CUs policeman’s gun and insignia. Policeman standing. No Trespassing
sign. Free Farm leaflet. Hippies leave under police supervision - some hippies
play maracas. VO re area being private property belonging to College. Hippies
running in field. Hippies in front of college building protesting. Sit-in.
Newspaper headlines re sit-in. Hippies take off No Trespassing signs and burn
on campfire. Night. cooking outdoors. Vermont hills.
Man w/ bleeding face from confrontation. Trampled field. Stills hippies gathered
in field.The copyright status of the following item is unknown. We can supply
on an access fee basis for £200 after the client signs an indemnity
which states they are responsible for any necessary clearances
220964 16:15:33
- 16:34:28 SD COL
British accent. Talking and CU shooting up heroin (shots throughout). Various
young people tell of their experiences. Morgue shot.
16:30:15 Casket w/ a few flowers into hearse. Credits.
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