“ NARCOTICS: A CHALLENGE TO YOUTH ” 1956 DRUG SCARE FILM FOR TEACHERS XD46654
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This 1956 color educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with financial assistance of the Woman’s Relief Corps targets teachers as well as junior and senior high school students in the war on drugs. Narcotics are classified and effects of opiates, stimulants, and barbiturates are summarized and dramatized (TRT: 23:32).
Opening titles: “The Narcotic Education Foundation of America Presents, Narcotics, A Challenge to Youth, Narrated by Lowell Thomas” (0:09). A classroom of adolescent children at Brethren High in Paramount, California. The teacher stares vacantly as students work. A clock (0:27). The teacher picks up a memo from his desk and reads. The school bell rings (1:25). Class dismissed. One male student lags behind and hands in a paper with a sloppy gesture (1:55). School hallways. The teacher visits a library, thumbs a small book (2:31). A still photo of a poppy plant. A graph: “Morphine” shows vials of the drug in sulphate, tab, and cube form (2:52). “Heroin” with full vials of the brownish substance marked “Mexican, caps, bindles” (3:13). A row of five pills: “Pure or European” (3:35). A still image of a cannabis sativa plant. A series of vials containing marijuana in various forms: “Seeds, Rough, Manicured, Cigs, Roach” (3:37). Marijuana “joints” (4:05). A coca plant. Cocaine: “Sniffed or Injected.” A drug user’s “works,” with a spoon and syringe (4:12). A visual guide to “Hypnotic” and “Stimulant” pills and capsules provided by the Narcotic Educational Foundation of America shows a galaxy of multi-colored uppers and downers. Closeups on Nembutal, Seconal, etc. Narration mentions “goofballs” (4:36). The teacher leaves campus. Students recline on the school lawn (5:10). Scenes of urban life in Southern California. Pedestrians, automobiles. A man smokes on a highway overpass (5:32). Returning home, the boy passes by his concerned mother and father in a living room. He sits down on a bed uneasily. His mother visits (6:34). Overwhelmed, the young man responds with frustration, closing the door on his parents. He looks into a mirror (7:20). Two young delinquents jump or mug a pedestrian at dusk, then drive away. They smoke marijuana in a parked car. Narration mentions “pot, weed, grass, reefers.” The youths exhale luxuriantly (8:10). Two of the young men climb a staircase to meet a heroin dealer (9:48). The dealer prepares an “outfit” with a belt tourniquet, a bent spoon, and eyedropper. The young man receives a dose, then rushes to a nearby toilet to vomit (10:40). The young man, now changed, leans heavily on a door. He returns home to bed (12:42). Hooked, he returns to the smiling dealer (13:09). A drug deal is made on a sidewalk near a coin-operated scale (13:30). The young duo attempts auto theft, driving off in a two-toned convertible luxury car (13:46). Exterior: “La Brea Hospital.” The youths rob a doctor of his briefcase. They find a pill bottle inside (14:38). Back at the trap house, the youths encounter two other junkies, a white boy in glasses, a black boy who stares remotely (15:28). The tallest boy intimidates the young African American. The man in glasses nods off. A woman in a sweater and skirt arrives and “cooks up,” ties off, etc. (16:11). An undercover police bust nails the junkie duo. Their arms are inspected for track marks. Arrested (17:43). Jail. Mugshots. Cold turkey withdrawal in a jail cell (18:40). Out of prison, the young man walks, directionless, finds his addict companions (19:24). Working as a dealer on the streets. A closeup expressing turmoil (20:25). The teacher returns. Back at the classroom, students file in (20:51). End credits (22:28).
This classroom film starred Ronald Trujillo as the boy, Jim Raymond as the teacher, and Denis Robertson, Richard Holland as the wayward friends. It was shot by Albert E. Locher, with library music sourced from CBS and sound effects from MGM. Sgt. Frank Sweeney from the Narcotic Detail of the City of Vernon’s police department served as a consultant.
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I loved these films in high school in 1960s......Still love getting high......US Army veteran.....
Enjoy it bro you earned it , thanks for your service.
I just got to my first year, stationed in Germany 🇩🇪
Respect
Were you in NAM ?
@@JohnEglick-oz6cdhonestly if he was in high school in the early 60s very possible he would have been a young man fresh out of school they drafted many thank this man for his service if he truly was no offense to em just you know the frauds out there gotta be careful peace man ✌️
(Sadly I can say this with a level of first hand experience)
But this was actually not a terrible video. It had some valid points.
Especially the part about leaving jail just to fall back into old habits.
The teacher at the start seemed pretty messed up as well. I think he was on Peyote LOL
I think this a teachers guide to spotting drug use.
My father grew up on Fishtown section of Philadelphia, near the docks, and he said shooting up Horse(heroin) was called tracking for the track marks it left on the arm primarily where it was shot up, and this goes back late 40s , and early 50s.
Our high school was built in the 1940s/early 1950s (wings were added as the town grew). I went there in the early 90s and it’s funny how much it resembles this school in the film. We were still using the same old desks as well. This is a great film. I really enjoy the old educational films.
I absolutely love these old educational videos! Thanks for uploading
They give me inspiration to create my own animated cartoons.
Got to love the 'marijuana straight into heroin' narrative! I guess these kind of things happen when you are hanging out with David Bowie.
This is not America shaaa llaaalaaalalaaaaaaa. Snowmen melting from the inside lmao
Oh this is not Americuhhhh
Melting from theee insiiiiIiiIIide 🎶 🎵
🎶
*smokes weed, next day, dude I'm jonesing for some heroin today oh my God someone sell me a 20ga pencil and a few balloons please that weed it just absolutely killed my opiate receptors and doesn't even touch them but hey who cares we can make up any kind of BS we want so I'm very much jonsing for heroin totally*
Let this statement show how stupid society was in the 50s yet it was so hard for our grandparents although you could work a register at a grocery store and not be in debt at all and buy a house and a car but our kids now have it so easy
Dammit grandpa
Smoking doobies to shooting H into your nutsack all in one semester. Sounds about right…..never.
Exactly what I said
This crappy movie is just a bunch of anti-drug propaganda!!🇺🇸💉🚬💊
I'm so glad that films like these were used to defeat drugs once and for all
"A weed that flourishes in ignorance" So much irony.
herion is the champagne of opiates, there is no arguing that.
I would say Lean is, the way people drink it as a status symbol
@@misakiyoshida ^^this guy gets it 😂
Dibenzylmorphine is better.
@@0BRAINS0 dibenzylmorphine ??
@@matthewjdouglas6471 synthetic opioid.
I was really at a loss as to where I could get money for narcotics, but learned from this film: steal. Got it, thanks!
13:50 The music in this scene was also used in The Twilight Zone (The Odyssey of Flight 33) as well as in at least one episode of Perry Mason.
And used on dragnet the music in classroom scene
Vietnam and Afghanistan were America's worst trips...
Afghanistan was warranted at least
How bout some fentanyl from China 🇨🇳? How could anyone call this amusing?! 24,000 overdose deaths a year!
@@Bigsativa Yeah! After losing an uncle in.NAMS Central Highlands midMarch 1968 , tail end of bloody TET , a little less than 2wksb-4 my 11th bday .
Pretty hard to have a '59 Chevy in a '56 film people! Who's smoking what here??
Beat me to it!
And I am Hi, Hi Hi!
I'm smoking cannabis.
Oh wait, I see what you mean...
Does it really matter.
Good eye.
That's golden! Also, how come in every show, documentary, and movie...when someone vomits it's never believable, never. Back when I drank a lot, one night I decide to lay down and...Uh Oh...the room's spinning...here we go!!!...I run to a window and managed to hit "record" on a nearby cassette machine...and boy it wad a good (bad) one! Capturing that was the best.
Well researched video, just as good as any similar educational film of today.
A bit hyped but an informative film. Also, great music soundtrack!! This music was used in many tv dramas of that era. Awesome!!
Surprisingly honest and accurate.
Classic!
Say one thing..film ain't lying!! this is way goes real life starts innocent compounds all information is true.mr Don Ray,s music is powerful only missing dragnet opening THIS IS BIG CITY This documentary is better than viewing movie man with GOLDEN ARM..thanks periscope flims
I like how the Big Bopper guy sarcastically drops his test paper on Mr. Teacher's desk with that evil grin. But - it doesn't stop with the grades, does it? HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THEM, MR. TEACHER? LOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!
Drugs are bad, mm’kay
mm'kay
@@vintageaudioworkshop This is comical .
Yeah. The 100,000 dead from OD on opiates in the US in the past few years certainly does make it seem bad. Fully agree.
Wow notice how the actual poppy resembles a fig . I seen a documentary where the narcotics task force was checking a produce shipping hub. They came across a load of retail displayed figs . They looked like figs but upon closer look they were individual poppies . Packed in fig display trays . The also could smell the odor of opium .this was a Canadian bust of all places
Always found it odd how religious texts actually seem to advocate the planting and consumption of poppy flowers. The fig connotation is interesting.
2000 years ago a plant that took away all pain and made u feel amazing must have seemed like magic.
Amazing how clean, neat and well dressed everyone is.
Is there anything more pleasant than enjoying a toke on a sunny Wednesday morning while watching a 1950s drug awareness film?
Yes, of course there is. What a stupid question!
But it is a nice way to pass the time...
The black kid falling asleep deserves an Oscar. He looks like he's about 10 years old. McCauley Culkin was slapping himself and screaming into a mirror at that age.
I have an aunt who has been chasing the dragon for 35 or more years. And still chasing strong
This is comedy gold!
I remember watching Dragnet with Joe Friday this show triggered that memory
Dragnet had an episode of the use/ abuse of marijuana by a , what looks like , successful family with a young baby . Remember seeing it midAugus , 1968 when I was 11years old .
*January 16, 1992 is my sobriety date*
Congratulations on your accomplishment. So proud of you. ❣️
That's great we need to hear more people off drugs
My cousin died a week ago because of H
Sobriety date trolll trolling again
@@diablo666541 drunk/ drugged?
2:26 - It IS time to find out..and stop calling me Shirley.
3:40 - the dying marijuana plant 😂😂😂
11:10 - the fakest looking dope scene ever
The kids smoking the joint in the car, well one of them looks like the drummer from the black keys
The one with glasses look like woody allen
Most of the youth I remember met the narcotics challenge head on.
Horrible time to be a heroin addict in the 1950s and 60s. No Methodone programs, only place in the country that treated heroin addiction was in Lexington Kentucky.
Methadone came available late 60s
@diablo666541
Veterans coming back from Vietnam expedited the need for methadone.and the clinics.
God damn the pusher man ⚡️
This film is at MOST 1959. The fonts being used in the drug displays gave it away. But the proof is @8:23. Sometimes it's a bi#&h being old.
Delightful. The weed that grows in ignorance. The bad boys all climb into a '59 Chevy, so I don't think the 1956 date is right.
The junkie with glasses looks like young woody Allen
Still living at home in his 20s? I’ll get him high, damn
id take living with my parents over being homeless any day u trippin
Wow. Back in the 50s they had 30 years old high school students ?
That's Cra Cra.
The teachers were using too when I was in school.
Lot teachers especially the ones fresh out of college got high .either smoked weed or had a occasional line.of coke .I knew few who were classmates of mine n became teachers
Does anyone know what happened to all those films they showed us in school. Those reel to reel projector ones.
Straight from smokin the reffers to slamin heron. Dudes hardcore.
Iv been on this weed kick for 30+ years, when do the other substances start to take over? Do I have to steal first, or does that come after?
That looks like some pretty bad weed. No wonder they went on to heroin.
"Snow like"? Scientific name?
I was a heroin addict and it's terrible I went on methodone I was on 70 mil of it I went cold turkey when I got down to 12 mil through shear willpower and my ex Emily at the time I got clean she would beg me to take my meth it was in the fridge but I would refuse I wanted to be clean she would hold my hand and confute me it was three weeks of hell but I made it the greatest pleasure was at the end throwing my methodone in the bin I don't know what's worse heroin of methodone six years clean now
Can i get one of thoes books packed w samples of drugs? For... research?
How did they get a 1959 Chevy in 1956?
When I was on heroin I always prepared my own
Damn, dudes kicking h with white pants on. That’s sh&$y.
Clean streets and a dad at home in the projects, nope something wrong with this video.
This film is from 1962, not 1956.
I want a box of drugs like that
is the teacher clint eastwood's calmer brother?
the addiction is just starting once u hit prison the drugs are more pure and everyone does them
Still relevant today.
Highly “Dependent” on their own parents….
13:46...I remember those coin-operated scales when I was a kid in the early 1970's
Challenge accepted, challenge beaten
Hilarious
The teacher must be high on anti depressants. Lol 😝
A little Valium never hurt anyone
@@CEOkiller He would have to wait until 1963 when valium was introduced in the U.S. The first benzo was Librium introduced in 59--60. When this film was made this teacher would most likely have been prescribed Milltown or equanil.(meprobamate) and phenobarbital was often used for anxiety.
This is an advertisement
Think it a video for teachers to learn about sighns of drug use
Drugs are bad unless free
don't do drugs, get them for free
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With all of these films the parts about Marijuana are laughable, but they're dead right on the point concerning heroin.
I wonder if these 3 addicts became members of the Aryan brotherhood
When they went to prison. The prison shown was one top recruiting spots along with Tracy juvenile center.
lol
I love drugs.
The vehicles are so awesome.
Edit: 6:10 *"It can't happen hear" Frank Zappa*
Was that sighn saying sherriton hotel lol
He’s a had a marijuana now he must have brown.
So what they go jail for having tracks on their arm
Still accurate 🤔 and good actors 🤔
You find all of this accurate?
@@XthepumpkinqueenxXx the general idea yes
Better off with Herion , compared to that deadly fentanyl shit that replaced it..
HEROIN KILLS,DIMBRAIN
18:47 you can see the general high fear the public had….should still have to a sane degree but I digress…because any good American should see that scene and think what did they get arrested for? Did someone call? If not then wtf man
They should put Joe Friday as one narcs
Mr. Teacher looks stoned.
The guys one looks like 50s greaser n otherlooks dimwitted n 3rd looks like woody alan
Such bullshit, pot made the pain tolerable. never went to anything else.
It was so easy to steal in the age with no CCTV camera
i really think that its the puberty thing and how that is socially percieved in Boys..... its a social phenomona of boys becoming men.... even families see them as different, estranged, changed, needing/wanting sex....not being innocent anymore.... same thing happens to girls ...
but the troubled teenage boy phenomona seems to be different than that of the troubled teenage girl.... the troubled teenage boy either needs to be married..which society used to allow for...hello!!!! teenage boys need to be married otherwise they will fool around, get into trouble, drugs, crime...
but if they have the truth of Christianity, they may be able to be a good teen and maintain their innocence and goodness and worth until they get married at 25 ..
X
Most drugs should be legal and produced here, not methamphetamine or fentanyl. I would suggest opium rather than heroin. Of course people will still make it or use it but at least this would severely damage the cartels in other countries and reduce violence, users here would know what they are getting, at a cheap price, narcan given along with opiates. The war on drugs was lost long ago, drugs have been used by society for eons. While there is no perfect solution I suggest this might be a reasonable compromise. If there is a better answer out there I've not yet heard it.
Legalize Laudanum!
Totally agree.
@@marclayne9261 Laudanum is opium , and alcohol mixed; 2 addictive properties there . In fact alcohol withdrawal is deadly , more so than morphine , and heroin !
The USA will never be able to stop the illegal fentanyl manufactured in China 🇨🇳 and pouring in through the Mexican border mixed in black tar heroin and counterfeit pain pills.
Cartel won't let happen
Was a rolls Royse easy to steal
Is he pushing 10 -11 years old? 15:58. Some H will clear up those middle school blues
Hahahahahaha 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I can just hear him saying the n word making that guy get up off the couch
That was some pretty gross looking weed
I never used eye dropper with needle you could get tetanus from those things I always used to use insulin syringes
But you probably weren't a junkie back in the late fifties when they didn't have cheap single-use syringes.
@@bigredracingteam9642 no I wasn't but my brother remembered those syringes that were still available up to early 70 n 71. They were durable and you had replace the hypodermic needle which most junkies didn't. My brother told me those syringe was rough after needle gets dull. Lot people got tetnis infection, plus the long needle could collapse veins. And eye dropper handle caused more people to miss the shot cause you can't get direct register. I was a junkie from early 90s . I used insulin and glass bodied vet syringe n I hated those things. This back when pharmacy acted like assholes not wanting to sale m to addicts .what they didn't realize they contributed to rise in aids /hiv /hepatitis c by not sale them to people other than diabetics. That changed when cases started rise up.and when the family of addict that was I'm advanced stages started suing the very places that refused to sale something that can stop or control the spread of aids n hiv nowadays you don't even have to go to a pharmacy you can order them from Amazon LOL
@@diablo666541 Oh, I've clearly misunderstood you then. I read it as "why didn't the just go get a proper syringe/needle back then" but I see you know exactly why they didn't. My bad.
Take care, man.
Iike how they say they engage in gang activity lol
Folks just say no to drugs. Simple as that.
These documentaries are NOT PROPAGANDA AT ALL ITS TOTALLY NOT PROPAGANDA GUYS
And this film was right: ua-cam.com/video/j7layyUBQFs/v-deo.html
More drug propaganda please!
God is a madman who sits on the shore, morphs into schizophrenia, and flys off into the sunset without a care in the world.
to be fair heroin really is great