This color educational/ “scare” film is about the history of drug use and was made in 1971. It is called THE PERFECT DRUG FILM.
Title card: A MacMillan Films Release. Children move in circles. People pass out pills. A man surfs. A narrator talks about a search for a perfect drug. Title card: EM Films presents THE PERFECT DRUG FILM narrated by Beau Bridges (:08-1:28). Beau Bridges is on screen. People purchase and take a perfect drug pill. Science is claiming they have already developed it. Primitive men walk and eat plants. We have always wanted to feel good. Drugs would get people fired up for war or fun. Opium was medicine and a drug. China and England had a war over opium (1:29-5:12). Japan had a war with China years later. Homer the greek talks about opium in the famous work: the Odyssey. By the 1800s, opium was in the USA. Before the civil war, morphine was created. Heroin was created in the late 1800s. Many died from it. In the late 1800s, many people created a ‘great drug’ but this was before the FDA (5:13-8:14). Breathing in ether fumes made people high. In the early 1800s, young people had ether parties. Many people had ether parties. People tried to create new ‘laughing gases’ after ether was deemed illegal (8:15-12:16). Modern science looks at barbiturates . A doctor discusses how bad abusing them is. And now people are shooting ‘speed’. A doctor discusses how speed is very bad for you. Blood vessels get destroyed by meth (12:17-16:57). Marijuana is discussed next. It has some positive affects. But it has negative ones as well. The doctor says we don’t know about physical difficulties but as with tobacco, we will learn how bad ‘pot’ is bad for you. Lots of people are bored and turn to drugs and no drug is ever enough (16:58-20:29). LSD is up next. LSD isn’t natural, it is made. Poison is sometimes mixed in with LSD. LSD can open repressed memories and create delusions as well, causing death or suicide. LSD might be used for cancer patients in the future to ease pain (20:30-23:40). Back to trying to make a perfect drug. Showing what happens when you take a pill that relaxes you and how by doing this – you may be calm but things will not change. You are just surprising and running away from problems by doing a pill. By doing a ‘perfect drug’ – it doesn’t matter as it’s not your problem – but it is. Because if anyone is doing it – why not surgeons and teachers? Or your parents? And what about if people of government do drugs? (23:40-28:27). Drugs don’t solve problems. Mankind might stop developing if they just wanted to relax and feel good. Are we truly ready for a perfect drug? (28:48-31:01) End credits (31:02-31:48We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 — President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.”
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