This police educational film is titled “Narcotics – Goof Balls and Tea” dates to 1957. It is the first of two parts of a longer documentary / educational film titled “The Narcotics Story”. This part portrays the use and misuse of barbiturate medication (aka goof galls) and marijuana (aka tea) among youth. The film is a Police Science Production and was used for police training. It is highly dramatized. It is narrated by actor Art Gilmore.
“Narcotics Part 1 – Goof Balls and Tea” title banner (00:23). Informational text about drugs (00:29). Footage from different countries, cities, small towns, and landscapes, to show that drugs know no limits and borders (02:01). A police officer reporting to see the lifeless body of an overdose victim on the floor of a store (02:57). Guests are seated and dancing in a street corner café (03:14). A police officer interrogates a woman for heroin possession at the police station (03:39). A new mother and her baby exiting a hospital (04:16). A mother and father are arguing, as their daughter eavesdrops (04:47). The daughter departs school and enters her home (05:32). She calls for her mother and discovers a note explaining that neither parent will come home (05:46). She takes a cigarette and liquor from her parent’s supply (06:24). She makes calls to invite friends for a party (07:39). Music is playing and guests are dancing (07:50). A young man has brought medications of the barbiturate type, such as Luminal and Nembutal to distribute as drugs (08:25). Police officers arrive to help a woman who was robbed in the street (10:15). The mother arrives home to find her daughter high on prescription medicine and the house in disarray (11:13). Cannabis Sativa plants (12:17). Two men harvesting marijuana (12:40). A detailed description of the cannabis leaf (12:58). The young man from the party and the daughter arrives by car to a house (14:01). He enters to purchase marijuana (14:50). A police officer passes the street corner café (17:41). The daughter and the young man park the car, enter a building, and smokes the marijuana (18:00). Affected by the marijuana, they reenter the car and he drive away (20:15). The police officer enters the street corner café attempting to detect use of drugs (20:39). He exits through the backdoor (22:11). The young man enters the café searching for costumers to deal drugs to (22:26). A transaction takes place as unnoticeable as possible (22:40). Three youngsters drive from the café, to smoke their purchase at a safe location (24:58). They park in a dead-end alley and share the marijuana inside the car (25:17). The police officer is suspicions and further investigates around the neighborhood, where he notices the car (25:33). He makes a call using the phone inside the street corner café (26:32). The young man is still making sales inside a table booth in the café, when the daughter arrives (26:46). She exits the café through the backdoor (28:09). A second police officer arrives to assist in the investigation of the parked car (28:23). The daughter walks unknowingly in the direction of the car, seconds after the police officers (29:20). She sees the officers arresting the three youngsters smoking marijuana inside the car hidden behind a wall (29:33). The daughter runs to escape, while the officers perform a thorough search of the youngsters and the car (29:41). A prison building and jail cell (34:00). “The End – Part 1” on screen (34:27).
The film was directed by Robert W. Larsen, written by Roger Emerson Garris, and narrated by Art Gilmore. The top cast consists of the following actors and actresses; Sharon Strand, Darlene Hendricks, Hebert Crisp, Fred Marratto, Allen Pitt, Patricia Lynn, Bob Hopkins, John Murphy, Joe Delro, Douglas Kester, and Nan Terry as the female police officer appearing at 03:39.
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