PDT - "Reefer Madness (1936)" Segment 1

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Description: *** PLEASE ALSO WATCH SEGMENT 2 *** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAi-0LZ-QY 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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insomnia1988 ::: Favorites yeeee hit buckets! 07-05-27 21:47:19 _____________________________________________________
TheInformation ::: Favorites Marihuana will eat you. 07-05-30 01:01:41 _____________________________________________________
deanjenkins ::: Favorites compelling argument 07-06-02 00:37:33 _____________________________________________________
Jenscool ::: Favorites Finally the Truth is out on You Tube.Please don't take a toke, u can't stop agiinnn..hahaha haha... 07-06-05 15:30:50 _____________________________________________________
brettmann ::: Favorites THOSE STUPID 30'S CHRISTIANS HAVE DONE IT AGIAN....THEY SPELLED MARIJUANA WRONG what the fuck is marihuana. 07-06-13 21:14:38 _____________________________________________________
mortylvr29 ::: Favorites my question is how would the people who made this film get their "facts" if they didn't try marijuana themselves, eh? they seem so sure of the accuracy of their information. 07-06-14 22:06:45 _____________________________________________________
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msn88s541 ::: Favorites Great movie. There are a lot of awesome camgirls at 'CAMZNOW DOT COM' -msn88s541 07-06-25 20:50:36 _____________________________________________________
TastierWay ::: Favorites Some of you people are so dumb. This is a movie from 1936 when they didn't know jack squat about marijuana, and only demonized it because black people smoked it. It's not used NOW, so stop acting like such dumb shits. Thank you. 07-06-26 01:28:01 _____________________________________________________
Scotterscott ::: Favorites Uhm, well marijuana has been used by humanity for thousands of years. There was a large purtian movement in 1930's (prohabition was another example) where substances in general were demonized. It is true that black people were smoking it, mostly it revolved around jazz. But it wasnt like marijuana was something new. The government intentionally made up false studies to make it illegal with the marijuana stamp tax bill. 07-07-20 03:02:47 _____________________________________________________
ORIGINALDAMNIT ::: Favorites This movie spawned GTA i swear to god.. check out those car stunts --Dave 07-07-23 08:10:51 _____________________________________________________