“US” 1970s HIPPIE ERA DRUG ADDICTION & ABUSE EDUCATIONAL FILM XD46694

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website 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, pas