- Title: PA-21
- Summary: THE TERRIBLE TRUTH: ANTI-DRUG FILM ABOUT MARIJUANA & ITS ROUTE TO HEROIN ADDICTION
- Description:01:52:03 - CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: "POLICE GRAB 21 YOUNG ADDICTS"; "NAB 16 IN TEENAGE DOPE RAID"; "SCHOOL SHOULD FIGHT DOPE". 01:52:15 - CU NARRATOR & HOST WILLIAM MCKESSON OF LOS ANGELES JUVENILE COURT SEATED AT DESK READING NEWSPAPER 01:52:20 - CU MCKESSON LAYS DOWN NEWSPAPER & SPEAKS TO CAMERA. 01:52:24 - CHART HEADED: "JUVENILE ADDICTS ADMITTED TO TWO U.S. HOSPITALS". QUESTION AT BOTTOM OF CHART: "HOW MANY WILL THERE BE THIS YEAR?" 01:52:45 - CU MCKESSON SHOWS HYPODERMIC NEEDLE, THREE MARIJUANA CIGARETTES & PILLS. 01:52:55 - MCKESSON GOES TO HOME OF TEEN ADDICT TO QUESTION HER ABOUT ADDICTION 01:53:24 - MCKESSON WALKS UP PORCH STEPS TO HOME & RINGS DOOR BELL. MOTHER COMES TO SCREEN DOOR & LETS MAN IN. 01:54:02 - CU TEENGIRL & MOM WATCH AS MAN ADMIRES PICTURE ON PIANO. 01:54:07 - GIRL SHAKE HANDS WITH MAN & SITS ON SOFA WITH HIM. TELLS HER STORY. 01:54:37 - REENACTMENT OF TEEN'S ADDICT STORY: TEENAGE GIRL WITH SCHOOLBOOKS GETS INTO WHITE CONVERTIBLE CAR WITH FRIENDS 01:54:42 - CAR STOPS ON DIRT ROAD IN BOONDOCKS, MIDDLE OF NOWHERE 01:54:47 - DRIVER HANDS POT TO COUPLE IN BACK SEAT. THEY LIGHT UP & SMOKE JOINT. HAND IT TO GIRL IN FRONT SEAT. 01:55:21 - TEEN SUDDENLY JUMPS UP IN FRONT SEAT & BEGINS TO ACT BIZARRE. SHAKING HER HEAD, DIZZILY TRYING TO MAINTAIN HER BALANCE. 01:55:41 - PARENTS CONFRONT DAUGHTER WHEN SHE COMES HOME "HIGH". DAD GRABS HER PURSE & SEARCHES THROUGH IT. FINDS NOTHING. 01:55:52 - WELL-DRESSED MALE DRUG PUSHER ON STREET CORNER TAKES DRAG ON CIGARETTE AS HE LOOKS AROUND SUSPICIOUSLY 01:55:57 - DRUG DEALER APPROACHED BY TEENAGERS. FLIPS AWAY CIGARETTE & IN SLICK MANEUVER SLIPS BOY PACKAGES OF DOPE. BOY SLIPS DRUG DEALER MONEY. 01:56:14 - CU TEENS ATTRACTED TO EACH OTHER 01:56:21 - TEEN COUPLE KISS SENSUALLY. 01:56:26 - CU BOY'S ARM WITH MULTIPLE NEEDLE MARKS FROM SHOOTING UP HEROIN 01:56:31 - GIRL WATCHES AS BOY INJECTS HYPODERMIC NEEDLE INTO ARM. SHOWS HER HOW EASY IT IS. 01:56:44 - BOY TALKS GIRL INTO TRYING HEROIN. SHE LETS HIM INJECT HER. 01:56:49 - CU GIRL IN STATE OF ECSTASY. SITS IN SOFA SHOWING EFFECTS OF DRUG. GETTING HOOKED. 01:57:20 - DISHEVELED GIRL WALKS HOME WITH PACKAGE. STOPS TO WATCH AS TWO POLICEMEN PUT BOYFRIEND INTO POLICE CAR. BUSTED. 01:57:45 - GIRL FRANTICALLY SEARCHES IN CHANDELIER, UNDER SEATS OF SOFA LOOKING FOR NEXT FIX. 01:57:50 - GIRL FALLS BACK IN CHAIR IN STATE OF PANIC, HYSTERIA, TERROR. 01:58:15 - DAD SEARCHES THROUGH NEWSPAPERS & CALLS ON PHONE LOOKING FOR MISSING DAUGHTER 01:59:04 - GIRL GETS OUT OF POLICE CAR AFTER BEING ARRESTED FOR PUSHING DRUGS. COPS TAKE HER INTO POLICE STATION. 01:59:20 - CU TEEN IN PRISON CELL BUNK SUFFERING FROM DRUG WITHDRAWALS. POV THROUGH BARS. COLD TURKEY 01:59:54 - GIRL & MCKESSON SEATED ON SOFA AFTER TELLING STORY 01:59:59 - MOM HANDS MAN HIS HAT & HE LEAVES. 02:00:09 - SAYS GOODBYE AT SCREEN DOOR & WALKS DOWN PORCH STEPS 02:00:37 - NEWS PAPER EXTRA HEADLINE OF HOLLYWOOD TRIBUNE: "ASK DEATH PENALTY FOR DOPE PEDDLERS". 02:00:50 - CU "GOOD SENSE" WRITTEN ON SCREEN 02:01:26 - CU HEADLINE: "AMERICA'S TEENAGE DOPE FAD ENDING".
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1951
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: PA-21