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Jackson Junior High - The Long Way Home

Reel Number: 221528-04

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1970s

Country: USA

Location: Arlington,Fairfax County,Virginia

TC Begins: 05:44:37

TC Ends: 05:58:34

Duration: 00:13:57

Montage: School buses towards camera, kids off bus, into school, running. 05:44:51 Title: Jackson Junior High 05:44:55 Montage: students & teacher putting up posters, write alcohol on blackboard, hallway, kids outside school running. 05:45:10 Black male teacher talking to students about fatal accidents due to drinking. Alcohol Projects posters on rear wall of school. 05:45:28 title: The Long Way Home. 05:45:35 Man drinking, wife complaining that it is destroying the marriage. He is drunk & the talk. She says she will always care. Kiss. 05:46:27 Lights come up to applause as the couple bows. It is a theater performance. Kids walking out of play talking, go into backstage room & greet parents; they are drinking. 05:47:40 Kids out of school, walking w/ teacher. MCU talking about drinking w/ teacher. 05:48:08 CU clock on wall: 2 o’clock. Couples laughing, drinking, talking, slightly drunk. Kids looking unhappy. Wife wants to go home, father talks to kids who tell him its time to go home. Wife: “You & your drinking...” 05:49:54 CU Fairfax (?) County Police Administration Building. Students doing report (includes daughter of couple) interviewing policeman talking (VO) about amount of alcohol. Montage: CU pouring beer into glass, CU drinking, couple drinking wine, bartender serving drinks. 05:50:41 Police pulling over convertible at night w/ flashing lights, high school kids seen as policeman asks to see license & registration; driver out of car & given balloon test. Mobile alcohol van arrives, Fairfax County on police car. Driver taken inside, given breath test. CUs include Breathalyzer dial showing per cent blood alcohol being .14. Cop takes notes. 05:52:34 Father: “Come on let’s go...” Daughter upset. 05:52:55 Girls tour auto junkyard, take pictures of wrecks. Man talks about his student who crashed & killed himself. 05:53:52 Father tries to find car keys. Mother: “He’s in no condition to drive...” Girls worried. CU car pulling past police car, red lights on & stops it. POV from in front of police car. CU cop out of car, walks up to driver & checks license & registration. Girl has been imagining, suggests he calls a cab. “...I’ve been driving for 20 years and I don’t need any kid telling me what to do!” Family argues. VO of girl thinking. 05:56:17 Car into driveway at night, wife & daughter relieved; man still partially drunk, disappointed when they get out of car & ignore him. 05:57:03 Flashback to after play (?) girls talking about what to do, “...he’s had more than four drinks...” Girl’s friend dials pay telephone for her folks; couple returns w/ car keys, man says “What are you doing?” 05:58:21 Credits Educational Films; Teenagers; Acting; Theater; Government Films; HEW;

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