Drug Abuse: Anti drug film
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02:01:34 – 02:05:42
Opens on a man’s hands rolling a joint over a stash box of pot and rolling papers. He lights the joint and passes it to his friends. Hippies smoking and dancing in a room with spray paint and graffiti on the walls and floors, one hippie has her baby, two hippies shotgun a joint, everyone is zoned out and stoned.
Daytime – people walking through a park or campus, looks like DC or Philly,Quick shots of various newspaper headlines about violence San Francisco Examiner, Boston Herald Examiner, Milwaukee Journal, Hartford Courant, zoom in on newspapers. Dealer in sunglasses walks up to two teens standing on the street outside of a nice house, and hands them marijuana in exchange for money, then walk away. Fade to the teens at home divvying up weed and pills, teens getting in a car outside high school campus, and drive off, Teens pull up to a house, 2 boys and a girl, they exchange money and get out of the car and go inside the house
02:05:43 – 02:08:27
PAN down to an office building exterior. Dr. John T. Borrows with the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Youth Advisory Council sits at a conference room table talking to the camera talking about the word “addictionâ€, physical and mental dependency on drugs. Zoom in on display of different drugs – pills and other drugs in baggies with labels various substances, Back to Dr. Borrow, now standing discusses barbituates, CU shots of various types of drugs in pill form with dispensers, Seconal, Red Devils, Nebutals, Yellow Jackets, Tuinal Rainbows. CU of vinyl record player Zoom out to pill bottle and glass tipped over. CU of hands opening the pill bottle taking two pills and dropping the bottle and pills back on the table.
02:08:28 -02:10:53
Back to Dr. Borrows in the office, now discussing stimulant drugs, dexadrine hearts peaches, methamphetamine, methadrine, cut to a nurse loading a syringe with a liquid drug from a bottle, cut back to Dr. Borrow, cut to a user injecting a syringe into his or her arm. Cut to a sunny sidewalk, girl with long hair frantically rushes past two men, she is under the influence of a stimulant, girl runs to a house and up the stairs, and into the dark house., she does not turn on the light, she sits down and gases out of the window depressingly.
02:10:54 - 02:14:39
Back to Dr. Borrows sitting at the conference table now discussing the deliriants and marijuana, glue sniffing, gasoline, ether, paint thinners and some deodorant. Cut to three young boys sitting on steps, a 4th boy comes and brings a deliriant, they put it on a rag, sniff it and pass it around to each other. Cut to various shots of marijuana plants, CU shot of joints on a table. CU of man smoking a joint, Cut to a couple lighting and sharing a joint outside, Cut to a man lighting a joint in a car and passing it to his female friend in the passenger seat, cut toa room of hippies passing a joint around the room with CU of a teen crushing pills with a mortar and pestle and filling pill capsules. He then grabs his coach from the bed. Cut to teens arriving at a party, same boy sits on couch and gives girl a pill from his stash and she takes it. Girl hallucinates strange images of transportation and marching bands.
02:14:40 – 2:19:59
Back to Dr. Borrows sitting at the conference room table. Cut to a group of teens passing a joint around, cut to POV shot of police officers in a cop car as it drives down a suburban street, one cop is holding a shotgun, Cut to police officers arresting the teens, escorting them out of the party, some in handcuffs, put teens in the cop car and drive away. Fade to court room scene with various people in the gallery, teen is the defendant on trial for drugs, teen walks away with his lawyer, CU of hands in a marijuana stash box, cut to teens sharing drugs on a table, cut to woman taking pills in the bathroom mirror, cut to teens haring pills at a kitchen table, Cut to girl hallucinating at a party, Cut to man selling drugs to teens on the street, cuts to various shorts from earlier in the fil, cut to CU of woman opening purse and giving cash to her friend for a bag of drugs, she puts the bag in her purse, Zoom in on nurses n a hospital, nurse helps injured patient take a sip to drink. Group of men in suits sitting in chairs around a table having a discussion, looks like lawyers, businessmen, Cut to court house exterior, church exterior, cut to shot of smiling teens sitting in a room talking without drugs, cut to teens standing outside happily talking, then walking away together down suburban street.