“US” 1970s HIPPIE ERA DRUG ADDICTION & ABUSE EDUCATIONAL FILM XD46694
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This experimental 1970 color documentary film, ostensibly designed to provoke classroom discussion employs a boldly unconventional approach to addressing the issues of drug addiction, featuring the music of Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn. The film eschews narration for montage effects and extended fly-on-the-wall scenes of various drug users in conversation (TRT: 27:54). The film was produced by Robert Appelbe (now part of Norflicks Productions Ltd.), written and directed by Kris Paterson, with director of photography Henry Fiks and editor Ron Wisman.
Opening images of dead fish on a beach. Opening titles: “US, a film by Kris Paterson.” Auto wreckage in a junkyard serve as a metaphor for waste and destruction (0:23). Lens flare and an audio collage of tragic news announcements (1:32). A young woman walks urban streets to the music of Bruce Cockburn, passing “Anne’s Hairstyling, Snell’s Wear, Walgreen Fish & Chips, Ian’s Variety” (2:43). Closeup on muddy tires. A montage of cars on a freeway, people on an escalator, pedestrians in motion, drug advertisements, tobacco cigarette smokers, pollution (4:17). Junk food, broken windows, stained glass, urban factory smokestacks, headlines, newsmagazines, a baby doll among rubble, construction machinery at work, bottles of liqueur (5:20). Blur effects, syringes (6:25). Young mothers review and discuss a Time magazine article (6:35). Young “hippie” men and women with long hair sit on a floor, smoking and passing a marijuana joint (7:24). These two contrasting scenes are intercut (8:10). Children peer into paper bags, covering their heads. The conversations continue (8:30). The hippies review an illustrated guide to drugs. A girl shoots up heroin using a syringe (9:40). Youths gather on a street corner. A transaction with a drug dealer (10:56). The mothers discuss the privilege of children. A protest demonstration. The hippies have the first Jefferson Airplane album on display (11:05). British men discuss advertising via psychedelic posters over alcoholic beverages. Moire effects with concentric circles. Extreme closeups on eyes during a discussion of LSD trips (11:53). A hippie advocates for acid and marijuana (12:40). Beer drinkers chug a tray of drinks and belch with appreciation, then break into a song half-heartedly. Closeup on glasses of beer (13:35). The British man discusses his wife’s use of diet pills (14:46). One of the mothers pops pills (15:33). The Brit’s companion wears glasses and slurs his words (17:03). The hippies discuss public displays of affection (17:30). One of the beer drinkers blacks out. Cross-cutting intensifies (18:14). A young man ties off his arm with a belt tourniquet and prepares an injection while sitting on a toilet in a bathroom. The shot triggers a montage of images of urban decay (19:16). The voices of children sing a song about marijuana and LSD to the tune of “London Bridges Falling Down” (19:50). The beer drinkers discuss drunk driving. The hippies continue “rapping about drugs.” The drinkers discuss heroin addiction while grabbing for cigarettes, arguing “addiction can be anything” (20:23). Montages intrude on the conversation as it turns to the United States Vietnam War draft (22:30). The British man leaves a table of empty glasses. Nightclub signs. The hippies go for a drive in a Pontiac GTO convertible. Neon signs (23:37). The British man brushes his teeth at home while arguing with his wife (24:28). The young heroin user walks the illuminated city streets at night. Out of focus light bulbs cycle and flicker in strobing patterns (25:25). End credits. (25:35). Thanks to sponsors: “The producer wishes to thank the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, Uniterre Productions Ltd., Relay Investments Ltd., The United Church of Canada” (27:24).
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Bruce Cockburn is a national treasure. An extremely underrated artist.
I really enjoy his songs in Goin' down the Road.
Love him. Saw him live at the Ontario Place Forum in the summer of 84. ✌️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦
I was in High School in the mid to late 70s. Drugs were everywhere. I watched good friends descend into addiction and death. They started with drinking, then smoking, then pot then hard drugs. My oldest brother died of a drug overdose when I was a senior. I watched my parents who where swingers having pool parties on school days. Seeing my parents drinking and dancing people other than each other. I learned later in life they were doing pot too. Just myself and another close high school friend never touched any of that stuff. I am now 60 and to this day never had a drink, never smoked and never took drugs. My middle brother is a meth head on the streets of vegas. All my aunts and uncles and grand parents drank themselves to death young. So sad. This film reminds me so much of what I saw growing up.
That's crazy.. Amazing you came out clean. I remember people at school telling me how their brothers or someone in family died. Pcp was problem. I grew up in the 80s and it wasn't bad like 70s. It mellowed out some
@@dannyhood7433 Danny, it is the grace of God I'm still alive.
Sad, but good on you. Looking past the vices that surrounded you and finding relative success.
That was haunting at the end when she asked if she can get some speed
The weirdest part to me is alcohol has a worse withdrawal than almost any other substance besides benzos and barbiturates. Even a speed addict just needs food, rest, and maybe some short term anti anxiety meds. Alcohol can cause DTs and seizures which can kill and to get off you must carefully titrate with a benzodiazepine (they used to use barbiturates or even alcohol itself) long term.
True on alcohol addiction, but have you many methamphetamines, cocaine and or heroin and opiates, Ritalin and Adderall trying to stop? Very difficult, if at all possible, I have worked with all the addicts in my profession.
People on coke n speed don't go through withdrawal I swear it why they go portray it as if your Goin trembling n nausea. When actually they have appetite n get sleep . Not the case with benzo n heroin n other strong opiod
@@JDAbelRN then you should know coke n speed user don't go through withdrawal
3:41 this song is fire 🔥
I remember these films in the 70's , i was 16 in '70 and smoked weed to be cool, drank a bit and other stuff! Got bored with it quickly and stopped. Many of us were not caught up in it long term!
I was 11 years old and I started smoking pot and then drinking at every drug I could get a hold of and now I'm 63 still at it crack cocaine lately I love crack the way it makes me feel as long as I'm drinking also
@@tomtroy3792 Jesus, bragging about being on crack. That stuff will make you sell your soul ( if you had one ) you start stealing and doing anything for money to buy more crack. Hope you're just trolling with that. Been there and been clean 15 years and counting now off crack. So glad I got off that crap. Got my life back together. Hope you get tired of that bs lifestyle and can get clean. Nothing good ever becomes of crack use.
If you're just doing something to be cool you don't really have any interest in it anyway.
Nothing has changed except production values and slang.
One things I like about these Canadian documentaries about drugs is that they are much more realistic about it than American anti-drug psa's and documentaries. they don't over exaggerate the effects of cannabis and they also show you the hypocrisy of the adults who drink and take speed and thinks it's okay because it was prescribed by a Dr. and barbiturates back than valium was known as mothers little helper. American anti-drug documentaries always went overkill with exaggerating the effects of marijuana and it was always about the kids and how kids get into trouble, never about the hypocrisy of the adults drinking smoking cigarettes and taking pills while worrying about what their kids may be doing.
The younger folks talking was more funnier and relaxing
Our American friends might wonder why there are several non-North American accents in this film. The reason is historical: in the period after WW 2 - from roughly 1950 to the early 70s, emigration to Canada by (white) anglophones from fellow Commonwealth countries like England, Scotland, Wales, New Zealand, Australia, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the RSA [most who left the latter two did so because of those countries' racist policies - a bit ironic since it was only easy for WHITE commonwealthers to cherry pick a new home] was relatively trouble tree in terms of qualifications etc. In my high school years alone during the early 80s - and I lived in a small town with only one high school - I had at least one teacher from every country just mentioned; most of them had lived in Canada for at least 20 years by that point. As for the strange accent used by the Canadian born people in this film...well that's how they talk in Ontario...yes, it actually is a discrete accent - not everyone in Canada sounds like this.
This goofily overwrought attempt makes about as much sense as imprisoning human beings for using drugs different than alcohol and tobacco
yeah immediate execution is way better and cheaper!!!
We partied like living past 30 wouldn't happen..I'm 68.. judgmental people here are funny
Most of the people then died from using drugs. Most of you were nothing more than trash.
@@angelac2228 lol
Back in the 60s we were worried that “hippies” would bring about the decline and fall of the USofA. “ Beards and Bombs” was a favorite quote.
...and they did.
So did civil rights bill n desegregation you can't sit there and deny crime went up after that
Now something far worse than Hippies doing major toxic addictive drugs unlike Fentanyl,along with street dope,such as Zylzine.Amongst other abusive opioid substances, have now in all reality,have come to bringing the fast decline, and fall of the full-on country!
Drugs are dangerous don’t take those drugs
But alcohol and cigarettes are okay because they are taxable lol
Yeah you can drink your drugs, your taxable drugs like budweiser
The little kids sticking there heads in paper bags sniffing glue is the worst. Airplane glue.
I had a friend who started out sniffing glue.Jim died from the damage done to his organs.The chemicals dissolved everything.
Born 1964. What a fun time the 70’s we’re to be a teenager😎
This doc is raw yet classy..
Filmed in Toronto. Funny how 50 years later humans still find the need to medicate themselves with legal and illegal drugs. Heck, dope is now legal up here in Canada.
Note the Degrassi Street sign around the 3 minute mark.
People have been doing drugs for all of human history. Feeling the need not to is what's truly strange.
This looks 100% Canadian.
*January 16, 1992 is my sobriety date*
You're not sober if you're still obsessing over what date you got sober.
@@justanotherdrunk AA is a cult. You've just traded one addiction for another.. so spare me the canned catchphrases that they teach you. Heard them a thousand times. I'm 21 years sober, quit using sometime in 2001. Don't remember the exact date because it's not important. I don't go to meetings because it's honestly not even on my mind, I lost any and all desire to use drugs pretty much shortly after I quit. If you're still hanging on, one day at a time, as they say, you haven't recovered at all.
@@activelow9297 Looks like you know best !
@@justanotherdrunk Yup! Just trying to help. 12 steppers are clowns.. at some point you have to declare yourself recovered and get on with life. Sober, of course... but a normal life nonetheless.
@@activelow9297 they chase sobriety like they chased dope
I remember the adults talking about how teenagers were just walking into houses and taking stuff. There were several stories in the local paper of kids walking into unlocked houses and stealing in broad daylight. They had been on drugs. Many people started locking their doors that was about 1969, I was 6. Cool was very scary at 6, sounded like death.
After civil rights act people started lock there door after desegregation
@@diablo666541 These days, they just fill up a bag full of items and walk out of the store, then rape anyone at will. The commies let them out of jail to wreak more havoc
I had enough common sense to resist the peer pressure of the 1970s
am I taking crazy pills (yes, ir) or did I watch the wrong movie. this film suggests there are some enjoyable effects as well as possible issues with illegal drugs but it lets our hypocritical embrace of the stupefying effects of alcohol speak for itself. the director is obviously drug curious if not positively into it.
While watching this ,I can see y young kids were 4bidden to watch this.
From the description "meant to provoke discussion." Very little guidance here other than being depressing. (anything that includes people is depressing enough) But the symbology needs context. For example, it may be surprising to some, but fish can actually die without our help.
But it all seems like the film maker has a presupposition of our presuppositions.
I remember when dragnet would considered hippies the source of drug use . They would come down hard on them
OK, Cana-duh in the 70s
Seems more like documentary than anti drugs scare film
Thanks for the great content as always.
Most likely this film dates from early 1970 at the latest - the clue is in the radio broadcast at the end mentioning an exploding mailbox in Montreal. Bombs in mailboxes were a common terrorist tactic of the FLQ (Front de Libétation de Québec) and other separatist (i.e.: secessionist in USA speak) groups through the 60s, but the October Crisis of 1970 (yes, we have our own that has nothing to do with missiles in Cuba) during which two politicians were taken hostage (and one was murdered) and the Canadian Army was dispatched to the streets of Montreal ramped things up considerably (and to many, to a point beyond imagining); it seems unlikely a film like this would resort to a mailbox bomb soundbyte AFTER the events of October 1970 which completely altered relations between English and French Canada and between the various factions of the radical Left operating in Canada at that time. Ironically, some of the terrorists of the October Crisis managed to broker safe passage out of the country...to Cuba.
I started using cannabis daily in the Army in 1975. Most years since then I've grown my own until a few years ago when I switched to vapor cartridges. I don't think I can fill them myself.
The Susan Atkins lookalike at 7:40
I thought the exact same thing! She looks so much like Susan then I saw your comment 😂
I think I have actually seen your user name chatting in tlb radio livestreams wondering why they haven't had any shows for awhile
Yeah Tiki I got a good eye for Sadie Mae Glutz ✌️🤭
@@phenolred13 I don’t know what’s up with TLB .. Brian and Tawna have been away for a month now . If I hear anything I’ll get back to this thread and update .
@Mike1970 Thanks Mike I hope they return soon.
PS at 8:53 the guys laugh sounds like Charlie 🤣
19:50 'marijuana, lsd' sung by the children to the tune of some song i cant remember that was maybe in spanish.
"why can't we, why can't we" i love it...the tune is from a french nursery rhyme "Frere Jaques" .
Ring around the rosy
Pocket full of posy
All fall down ,All fall down
Marijuana, marijuana
LSD, LSD
Scientists make it, Jimmy Carter takes it
Why can't we, why can't we
Ah, Toronto the good, Hogtown, The Six - in all its circa 1969 glory with the obsidian black obelisk of Mies van der Rohe''s Toronto Dominion Centre (there are three black towers) now - and all dwarfed by even taller towers) as a lonesome girl wanders through lens flare down Degrassi street...could it get any better?
Toronto had lot issues with pollution in 70s . I remember Goin through Ontario border and it was hard to see cause of the haze in the air .
"The six"? Does anyone other than Drake actually call it that?
propaganda
Straight propaganda of the late 60s and 70s
Was that Terry Reid singing at the beginning?
Bruce Cockburn - Spring Song
@@harrychestwigg thank you sir!
damn that music made me feel like shit
music?
The weed was so much better back in the 70s
That should be reported for misinformation. Lol
The opposite is true, happily.
WHaaaattttttTTT???
Hahahahahahaha yeah that Mexican dirt weed was way better than the modern seedless perfected stuff we have today.
@@joebloe9901 all those strains you smoke and over pay for decent from 70s weed . Lot shit like Columbian n skunk . Golden bud in short without them you have no hydro weed
they smoke LSD or something...
That’s not how it works bud
Abousolutly the stupidest question
@@packersnerdsmoke fetty
@@packersnerdsmoke acid
Us?
YOU.
ME.
THEM .
EVERYBODY!!!
19:20😮
we all use syringes
All this bad things happen in humanity. Written in the Bible..sad but true...
These fims were a joke !
Dopers……never seen one who wasn’t a self-proclaimed intellectual who love performing mental gymnastics on why their dope is better than everyone else’s.
This documentary is lame man
Drugs are bad, mmkay?
What liked about them days is cops would bust them open without hesitation