PDT - "Reefer Madness (1936)" Segment 2

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Description: *** PLEASE WATCH SEGMENT 1 FIRST *** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK5CXN9Bd5s Welcome to the next edition of 1938Superman's Public Domain. Here we feature content, mostly classic films, that are in public domain or otherwise available for viewing and use, free of charge and free of copyright infringement. Things that are in the public domain are creative works with expired copyrights or those that were never copyright protected at all. On this edition of 1938Superman's Public Domain, we feature the classic 1936 exploitation film "Reefer Madness". Reefer Madness, originally titled Tell Your Children, is a 1936 drama film directed by Louis Gasnier. Its cast was composed of mostly unknown bit actors. The story was written by Laurence Meade. The plot revolves around the tragic events that follow when high school students are lured by pushers to try "marihuana": a hit and run accident, manslaughter, suicide, rape, and descent into madness all ensue. Tell Your Children was financed by a church group and intended to be shown to parents as a morality tale attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use. Soon after the film was shot, however, it was purchased by notorious exploitation filmmaker Dwain Esper, who took the liberty of cutting in salacious insert shots and applying the more scandalous title of Reefer Madness, before distributing it on the exploitation circuit. Some sources have also claimed that the film was financed by Harry Anslinger's Federal Bureau of Narcotics, or even by anti-hemp interests such as DuPont or William Randolph Hearst. The claims that Reefer Madness was produced as an exploitation film, thinly veiled as an educational piece to comply with the Hays code are simply untrue. Though it is true that lesser-known films such as Esper's own Marihuana and Elmer Clifton's Assassin of Youth were/are exploitation, Reefer Madness is merely a misguided (and highly inaccurate) morality tale. Such education-exploitation films were common in the years following adoption of the Code, and the subject of cannabis was particularly popular in the hysteria surrounding Anslinger's 1937 Marihuana Tax Act. After a brief run, the film lay forgotten for several decades. There was no concept of after market in those days, especially for films that existed outside the confines of the studio system, and were therefore considered "forbidden fruit." For this reason, neither Esper nor the original filmmakers bothered to copyright the movie, and it eventually fell into the public domain. In 1971, Reefer Madness was discovered in the Library of Congress archives by NORML founder Keith Stroup, who bought a print for $297, and made it the darling of pot smokers and college campuses. For this modern audience the poor production values and overacting create an uproarious comedy that provides perspective on the current "War on Drugs". Stroup is also responsible for the notion that the film was originally created as a propaganda piece. Distributing Reefer Madness to college campuses of the 1970s helped bankroll the burgeoning film company New Line Cinema. In 1973, the MPAA gave the film a PG rating. Today, Reefer Madness is considered to be a cult classic, and one of the best examples of a Midnight Movie. Its fans enjoy the film for the same unintentionally campy production values that made it a hit in the 1970s. The film was spoofed in a musical of the same name, which was later made into a made-for-television film in 2005. The movie's title has also been adopted into some usage as a general catchall term for any anti-marijuana propaganda which is particularly over-the-top or fantastical. (description courtesy of Wikipedia) Thank you, and I hope you enjoy the film. Please share it with others. For a high quality, free & legal download of this film, please visit the links below. There you can download it in higher quality for your computer, to burn it onto a DVD, or to download it for your video iPod or Sony PSP. Related Links: White Zombie Download - Free & Legal 64Kb MPEG4 (79 MB) - http://www.archive.org/download/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938_64kb.mp4 256Kb MPEG4 (178 MB) - http://www.archive.org/download/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938_256kb.mp4 MPEG1 (371 MB) - http://www.archive.org/download/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.mpg MPEG2 (2.7 GB) - http://www.archive.org/download/reefer_madness1938/reefer_madness1938.mpeg Share with friends
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Jenscool ::: Favorites Looks like there drunk! 07-06-05 15:50:32 _____________________________________________________
Jenscool ::: Favorites He's innocent, I tell's ya! 07-06-05 16:12:31 _____________________________________________________
Jenscool ::: Favorites Already got the shakes? 07-06-05 16:15:15 _____________________________________________________
Jenscool ::: Favorites At the end it looks like proabition. 07-06-05 16:18:34 _____________________________________________________
Laylind ::: Favorites first off the chick getting shot had nothing to with weed 07-06-05 20:44:13 _____________________________________________________
mindtrix00 ::: Favorites Legalize ! 07-06-08 15:39:45 _____________________________________________________
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RATTLEY67 ::: Favorites Stay high and stay free.If your allowed to? 07-06-17 06:10:16 _____________________________________________________
heinz454 ::: Favorites marijuana is dangerous 07-07-16 13:59:11 _____________________________________________________
ORIGINALDAMNIT ::: Favorites Take it easy kid, I just want to talk to you!!.... bahahahahahahaha --Dave 07-07-23 08:43:26 _____________________________________________________
dustydustyeh ::: Favorites haha, what a load. Yep, "marihauna" is definately what made the guy go insane. Man, this story is so out of line. And it was all written to strictly make marijuana look bad. However, it should be noted that the only reason any of these things happened were not because of marijuana itself, but because of it's illegality, and the MISinformation given on marijuana at the time, and even today. Oh, and did anybody notice what excellent piano players everyone was when they were "doped up"? 07-08-03 22:38:53 _____________________________________________________