The Youth Drug Scene Pt 1 of 3
Family Films / Johnson-Nyquist Prods.
Title card: ‘You are about to see a true story portrayed by the people who actually lived this nightmare’.
Brief shot of Woodstock-style festival. Talking heads sequence - various young people commenting on drug culture & peer pressure most are / were drug users themselves. “Everybody’s using some form of drug - alcohol, nicotine - everybody in the entire world is getting stoned” - “It’s easy to start on drugs, it’s easy to stay on drugs, until you start realising something’s happening” - “Before you start taking drugs you should read the newspaper, read books...look at some of the people you know that take drugs”.
22:02:56 Psychedelic title sequence.
22:03:21 Subject of film introduced - 20 yr old Mark Lindley - “for three of his teenage years he has been drug dependent” - carpentry work on house - family around dinner table, zoom in on Mark. Psychologist Dr Herbert Shiro on difficulty of persuading kids off drugs.
22:04:15 Mark to camera - “I took them because I enjoyed them...LSD over two hundred times” - psychedelic montage - Mark running through park w/ swirling graphics. Interview w/ mother - “watching his eyes” - and father “we caught him and his friends rolling marijuana”. Mark on effects of marijuana.
22:06:05 Dr Shiro - “parents lack a real enjoyment or an appreciation of pleasure”. CU variety of pills out of tube into hand - uppers and downers - Mark “went to sleep on Friday night after being awake for four and a half days and slept until Monday morning”.
22:08:53 Photo of Mark during drug phase w/ thick curly hair and sideburns - parents embarrassed to go out with him and angry at strangers reactions - “the hate would be so apparent in their faces but at the same time it made me so angry at him and so ashamed”. More psychedelic graphics - Mark interviewed through distorted lens.
Social Issues. Drug Abuse. 1960s. Hippies. Teenagers. Acid / Pot / Hash / Weed / Grass / Speed / Dope.
Juvenile Delinquency / Delinquents. Narcotics; Christian Films; Morality;
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The Youth Drug Scene Pt 1 of 3 Family Films / Johnson-Nyquist Prods. Title card: ‘You are about to see a true story portrayed by the people who actually lived this nightmare’. Brief shot of Woodstock-style festival. Talking heads sequence - various young people commenting on drug culture & peer pressure most are / were drug users themselves. “Everybody’s using some form of drug - alcohol, nicotine - everybody in the entire world is getting stoned” - “It’s easy to start on drugs, it’s easy to stay on drugs, until you start realising something’s happening” - “Before you start taking drugs you should read the newspaper, read books...look at some of the people you know that take drugs”. 22:02:56 Psychedelic title sequence. 22:03:21 Subject of film introduced - 20 yr old Mark Lindley - “for three of his teenage years he has been drug dependent” - carpentry work on house - family around dinner table, zoom in on Mark. Psychologist Dr Herbert Shiro on difficulty of persuading kids off drugs. 22:04:15 Mark to camera - “I took them because I enjoyed them...LSD over two hundred times” - psychedelic montage - Mark running through park w/ swirling graphics. Interview w/ mother - “watching his eyes” - and father “we caught him and his friends rolling marijuana”. Mark on effects of marijuana. 22:06:05 Dr Shiro - “parents lack a real enjoyment or an appreciation of pleasure”. CU variety of pills out of tube into hand - uppers and downers - Mark “went to sleep on Friday night after being awake for four and a half days and slept until Monday morning”. 22:08:53 Photo of Mark during drug phase w/ thick curly hair and sideburns - parents embarrassed to go out with him and angry at strangers reactions - “the hate would be so apparent in their faces but at the same time it made me so angry at him and so ashamed”. More psychedelic graphics - Mark interviewed through distorted lens. Social Issues. Drug Abuse. 1960s. Hippies. Teenagers. Acid / Pot / Hash / Weed / Grass / Speed / Dope. Juvenile Delinquency / Delinquents. Narcotics; Christian Films; Morality;