XD39094 “WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW?” 1970s ANTI-ALCOHOL EDUCATIONAL FILM NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF DRINKING

This 1970s film produced by Dale Smallin looks at the harmful effects of alcohol. The main character is a teenage boy who is invited to a party. The beginning of the film show him and his friend walking through town and causing mischief, which includes making fun of a homeless person. At the party, he drinks too much and is upset that his girlfriend does not want to talk to him, so he smashes a table and starts a fight. In the end, he stumbles home, and while sitting down near a truck he sees the homeless man again.

0:08 a teenager speaking on the phone in his room, 1:49 a Dale Smallin production, 2:00 “What about Tomorrow?”, 2:16 teen is talking to his friend behind a trailer, 3:07 friend unlocks the trailer and they go inside, 3:23 the two boys start drinking alcohol, 4:03 an advertisement for Kamchatka Vodka, 4:07 the boys walk through the center of town, 5:39 a homeless man looking through the garbage, 5:55 the boys start making fun of him, 6:16 the camera zooms in on an Early Times advertisement, 6:31 teens grab at things on a table full of alcohol at a party and start drinking with a particular focus on Budweiser beer, 7:51 teens are playing pool, 8:23 boy from earlier and his girlfriend sitting and drinking on the couch, 9:27 teens dancing while others drink, 10:14 boy and his girlfriend talking on the couch, 10:36 more people start dancing, 10:51 girlfriend reluctantly looks at the boy as he drinks more and more, 11:20 girlfriend gets up and leaves and the boy is looking at what is happening around him, 11:54 boy takes the record off the record player and smashes it in anger and shouts at his girlfriend, 12:35 boy flips the table over and starts a fight with another boy, 13:23 the boy gets up and leaves the party, 13:49 boy begins puking, 14:22 boy continues walking home, 14:50 boy sits down next to a truck, 15:25 he looks up in shock to see the homeless man from earlier, 16:00 Credits begin rolling, 16:49 edited by George Janes and Brian Hutchings, Produced and directed by Dale Smallin

California filmmaker Dale Smallin is perhaps best known for his work on short films for the Beach Boys and the Safaris.

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