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-- Reefer Madness era:
Narcotics
and you - Describes the nature and origin of opium, cocaine, and marijuana;
indicates medicinal uses of narcotics; emphasizes the physical and mental
deterioration which results from drug addiction; and surveys the laws which have
been enacted to prevent illegal drug traffic.
2 filmstrips (41, 48 fr.);
col.;; 35 mm; 2 teachers guides. - 1952
Young America Films - 1952
OCLC 7558290
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The
Story of a teen age drug addict -
Depicts the gradual stages of how a young man becomes a drug addict.
He starts by getting in with the wrong crowd, smoking marijuana, and
eventually becomes a heroin addict. A
stay in the hospital for heroin withdrawal and help from social workers enable
him to start a new life.
1 film reel (22 min); sd.,
b&w; 16 mm.
Young America Films; - 1951
- audience, high school.
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Drugs
Grade 11 - a lecture discussion, student teacher interaction
- (a panel discussion of the problem and implications concerning drugs and
whether marijuana should be legalized. The
panel is made up of students.
author Jim Hendricksen -
DATE unknown.
Film 1 film reel (8 min) sd.,
col, 16 mm.
LC: HV5801
OCLC ????
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Drug
Addiction - Uses animated drawings to
explain the derivation of various drugs and the harmful reactions of marijuana,
heroin, and cocaine. Related the
story of a high school boy who tries heroin as an "Experiment," steals
in order to purchase more, and becomes a grave liability to society.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Films, Inc. - 1951
Film 1 film reel (22 min);
sd., b&w; 16mm
LC: HV5824.Y68
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Title: Detectives find marijuana growing in Brooklyn--New York City. Hearst
production footage, HCOc24r2, X671]. Published/distributed:
[1934]
Notes:
Excludes some released
sequences which had been removed and used in an unidentified Hearst Metrotone
news issue.
Contents/description:
Captain Mooney of narcotic squad and detectives looking over field of marijuana
(long shot). Captain Mooney looking over large bush of marijuana. Captain
Moooney explaining use of drug (close-up). Captain Mooney with weed and
cigarette made from drug (close-up). Full field of marijuana (long shot) (Hearst
index card). Probable date based on
Hearst index card file date (October 25, 1934).
Rights held by UCLA Film and
Television Archive.
Subject(s): Mooney, John J.
Outtakes.
Newsreels-Unedited footage.
-Genre/form: Outtakes.- Database control #: 04-AAD-1821
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Title:
- Hearst Metrotone news. [Vol.
4, no. 237--excerpt. 500 dollar pipe dream goes up in smoke--New York City].
Published/distributed:
United States: [Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1933-02-01]
Notes:
Released sound track version.
Summary:
"Huge dope seizures made by New York cops are consigned to flames in
police furnace. Opium, heroin, hashish and other dangerous drugs up in smoke
they go"--Hearst index card. Includes footage of dope, marijuana, furance
oven, pipes.
Contents:
Shot description: Various scenes of narcotic equipment.
Cigarettes (narcotic). Various scenes of burning narcotics and equipment
in fire by shovel into furnace (Hearst index card). Hearst dupe filed at
HVMc5746r5.
Rights held by UCLA Film and
Television Archive.
PRESERVATION HISTORY:
Preserved at UCLA.
Subject(s): Newsreels
Shorts.
UCLA preservation. -
Genre/form: Newsreels Shorts.
Other Entries:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Database control #:
04-AAE-8220
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Title: Hearst Metrotone news. [Vol. 5, no. 284--excerpt. 250,000 dollars in
narcotics seized by the New York police goes up in smoke--New York City].
Published/distributed:
[1934-07-14]
Series:
- Metrotone snapshots Notes:
Released sound track
version.
Summary:
Includes footage of opium, marijuana, pipes, furnace oven.
Rights held by UCLA Film and
Television Archive.
Newsreels.Shorts. Database
control #: 04-AAE-8487
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Title: Hearst Metrotone news. [Vol. 6, no. 209--excerpt]. Brooklyn,
N.Y.--[dope garden in city backyard. New York police make startling discovery
after peddler's arrest for selling dangerous marijuana to soldiers at Governor's
Island, New York].
Published/distributed:
United States : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [1934-10-22] Series:
Metrotone snapshots Notes:
Released sound track
version. -
Newsreel story.
Originally issued as seventh
story in: Hearst Metrotone news. Vol. 6, no.
209.
Cataloged from copy lacking head logo; title from
intertitles, except bracketed portions, which are transcribed from Hearst
synopsis sheet. Summary: A view of
the backyard, showing marijuana plants. Officers examine the plants. Captain
John J. Mooney of the narcotics squad explains that the weed is made into
cigarettes called "sticks" or "reefers," and that "the
constant juice of these cigarettes causes temporary insanity."
Shot by Bockhorst and Peden, according to Hearst index card. Distributor
name from tail logo; release date (date of distribution to theater) from index
cards. Outtakes for this story (if
held) are filed at HCOc24r2, X671 (negative, 500 ft.).
Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive. PRESERVATION HISTORY:
Preserved at UCLA.
SF. Chronicale Newspaper
Movie Ad 1945
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