“ WEED: THE STORY OF MARIJUANA ” 1971 CLASSROOM ANTI-DRUG USE & ABUSE SCARE FILM XD38654

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1971 color anti-drug use and abuse film was produced by Concept Films and directed by Brian Kellman for Encyclopedia Britannica. “Weed: The Story of Marijuana“ combines time-lapse, montage, illustrations, animation (by Paul Fierlinger and emigre Pavel Vošický) and dramatized, documentary-style interviews to survey the evolving role of cannabis in U.S. society, with emphasis on the legal risks faced by young people. A unique score of experimental synthesizer music is provided by Tony Luisi on an EMS VCS 3 “Putney” (TRT: 23:42). Opening titles. The Encyclopedia Britannica Films logo (0:08). A shirtless young man speaks into a rotary-dial payphone. Pull back to reveal a jail cell in a police station. “Charles” is led down a corridor of open cells and locked away behind bars (0:21). Time-lapse photography shows the stop-motion growth of a cannabis sativa seedling