THE REEFER MADNESS ERA
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FILM ADDENDUM
(Of Interest to Movie Fans)
The RED RIDER (1934) - A serial NOT a movie
Sheriff Buck Jones tosses aside his tin star to help an innocent friend escape the hangman's noose and then, as luck would have it, stumbles across the real culprit while working on a ranch near the Mexican border. Fun Buck Jones serial includes Walter Miller as a villain who smokes marihuana, and humorous bits which are actually funny, rare in serials. Dr. Grood highly recommends this one. Shoot-'em-up serial co-stars Grant Withers, Marion Shilling, Walter Miller. 15 chapters. B&W
Youth in Crisis (1943)
Accoring to Time Magazine (Nov 15, 1943 pp94) - [Cinema] -- Youth in Crisis - Deals more with the cause and extent of the problem than with the cure. The film shows the lack of emotional security in homes robbed of their parents by the war plants and rocked by the immeasurable restiveness created by war itself. Babies wake screaming in siren-haunted blackouts. Boys just below draft age go on alcohol, marijuana and obscene-book jags. Shrug off the discipline of parents who earn no more than they do. Mothers find it next to impossible to ad Origin of Youth in Crisis: MOT's distributors (10th Century-Fox), needled by distressed exhibitors, asked whether anything might be done on the screen to discourage juvenile vandalism in movie theaters of some 150 social agencies consulted only three doubled the advisability of making the film. Vise teen-age daughters who, erotically, are almost as experience as Mothers.
Assassin of Youth:
Produced by NewLife [ New Life Films Foundation - 1223 W. Wilcox st. Peoria, IL ] 1957 33min sd b&w $195, rent $10 - Produced by Youth Conservation Crusade.
Tells how marihuana is harvested and peddled in cigarette form among youth. Shows experiments on white mice and describes the effects upon the human brain. Depicts actual episodes resulting from the use of the "reefers." Presents the gospel as the only solution, both as prevention and cure.
NEWSREEL:
Detectives find marijuana growing in Brooklyn--New York City. Hearst production footage, HCOc24r2, X671] (Oct. 25, 1934)
Description: 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 Mooney explaining use of drug (close-up). Captain Mooney with weed and cigarette made from drug (close-up). Full field of marijuana (long shot). Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive. Record ID: CULF04AAD1821-F
NEWSREEL:
"500 dollar pipe dream goes up in smoke" - [Hearst Metrotone news Vol. 4, no. 237] Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1933-02-01.
Description: "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." Shot description: Various scenes of narcotic equipment. Cigarettes (narcotic). Various scenes of burning narcotics and equipment shoveled into furnace. Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive.
NEWSREEL:
250,000 dollars in narcotics seized by the New York police goes up in smoke--New York City. [ Hearst Metrotone news. - Vol. 5, no. 284 ] [1934-07-14]
Description: Includes footage of opium, marihuana, pipes, furnace oven. Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive Database control #: 04-AAE-8487
NEWSREEL:
Brooklyn, N.Y.--Dope garden in city backyard -- [Hearst Metrotone news [Vol. 6, no. 209--excerpt -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Oct. 22, 1934.]
Description: New York police make startling discovery after peddler's arrest for selling dangerous marihuana to soldiers at Governor's Island, New York. A view of the backyard, showing marihuana 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. Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive. Call Number: HFA317 M -- Record ID: CULF04AAE8586-F
NEWSREEL:
"Marijuana weed found at field off Floyd Bennett Airport" Barron Island, Brooklyn, New York. Hearst vault material, HVMc558r4, 12619]. Published: [September 15, 1936] Physical details: 1 videocassette of 1 (VHS) (2 min., 16 sec.) : si., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Description: Shot description: General shot. Pulling up weeds. Goats eating weeds. Goats bucking each other in street after eating. Packing weeds into patrol wagon. Rights held by UCLA Film and Television Archive. Record ID: CULF04AAI1194-F
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
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.
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
MARIJUANA AND YOU - Educational Video Network, Inc. Publication: Huntsville, Texas :; Educational Video Network, Inc., Inc., Description: 1 videocassette (24 min.) :; sd., col. ;; 1/2 in. +; 1 sheet of study instruction. Abstract: Scientists are just now getting their first look at the effect of long-term marijuana usage. series No. 261 Class Descriptors: LC: HV 5822.M3 Material Type: Projected image (pgr); Videorecording (vid); VHS tape (vhs) : OCLC: 30836325
MARIJUANA--the Devil's weed--trailers
[Marihuana--trailers]. Published: 1936. - Location: UCLA Film and Television Archive Location: CLU-FT, FTAHOLL Call Number: M1421 More than one trailer? F63-L11-15 Physical details: 1 reel of 1 (ca. 1000 ft.) : opt sd., b&w ; 35 mm. nitrate print. Record ID: CULF04AAI1193-F
ASSASSIN OF YOUTH
[ The following is taken from the book - The Assassin of Youth] -- ARRANGE NOW FOR YOUR COMMUNITY TO SEE -- THE NEW SOLTND FILM-"ASSASSIN OF YOUTH" -- Believing that this expose of the tragic traffic in Marihuana, as it affects our boys and girls, should and would reach the hearts of pastors, parents and young people more readily through eye-gate, I have produced a sound film which has been used of God to inform and warn thousands against this Enemy of Youth. The film, approximately 1500 feet in length, describes the weed, as it grows, also after it is processed, and as used in cigarette or "reefer" form. Running time of film, 45 minutes.
Experiments are photographed to show the reaction from the smoke of a "reefer." Actual episodes are presented, proving beyond a shadow of doubt that the F. B. I. has rightly called marihuana "The Killer Drug." Sensational and gruesome scenes are deleted as far as is possible without minimizing the horrible facts. The only solution known to man is presented.
The film may be obtained on a rental or free-will offering basis. It should be shown in every church, sponsored by Brotherhoods, Women's Groups or Young People's Societies. It offers a challenge and a warning to the entire church and community. P. T. A.s and other civic-minded groups may secure the film for high school assemblies and community projects in high school auditoriums. Rental price, $15.00 for each showing.
For further information concerning "Assassin of Youth" in film form, write directly to:
ROBERT JAMES DEVINE 594 Como Avenue St. Paul 3, Minn.
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