1970s DUI DECISIONS
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Year Published: 1970s
Format: 16mm
Description: This short social guidance and driver's education film from the 1970s emphasizes the dangers of alcohol, most especially its impacts on driving and decision-making. It includes many interviews with individuals in public (e.g., on the street, at school) and rich, descriptive narration of key moral ideas. Youth in hot pants are hanging out, walking around a crowded carnival (0:06). They play games, eat, surreptitiously drink alcohol (disguised by brown bag) (0:20). A Ferris wheel lit up at night (0:47), pan down to boys fake-fighting, and two people kiss. Boy and girl in bumper cars hit each other, she laughs (1:05). One of the young men in group is helped by friends to walk through parking lot, as he can’t walk a straight line alone (1:10). He gets in driver’s seat of turquoise VW van, slams door. Others get in back of van (1:17). Street view from inside moving van. Title appears: "Produced with the help of The Transportation and Safety Unit, College of Education, Florida State University" (1:36). Headlights of passing VW from side of road (1:51). One man is passed out in back of van. The driver laughs. Guy and girl are asleep in backseat (1:56). VW van drives on. Teenage girl in white blouse is interviewed about students drinking at school ("…it’s terrible!...") (2:17). Interview with red-haired teenage guy with subtle mullet (same subject) (2:25). Three teenage girls standing together (blonde, brunette, black afro). Zoom out on the group of teenagers looking concerned. In foreground, cop enters stationary car that has crashed into a pole, and paramedics carry away corpse (2:48). Closeup: long-haired teenage boy looks horrified (3:04). "Silva’s Ambulance Service" drives away while teenagers look on. Interview with a woman with black mullet, then interview with a bearded man with shaggy hair (3:23). Diagram of a human abdomen is shown with narration: the compound alcohol "speaks" in first-person ("well, as anyone who knows anything about anatomy or the human body knows, all that common sense is so much nonsense, because the facts are that unlike most foods, I require no digestion and begin to have an effect almost the moment I am swallowed, though food in the stomach can slow me down somewhat") (3:39). Older white woman street interviewee declares "a driver shouldn’t take a single drop" (4:04). White guy with 1970s moustache is interviewed on street, says while laughing "I drive better when I’m drunk" (4:14). Black man wearing straw hat is interviewed on street: "A couple drinks is okay, but I know my limit" (4:22). A surgical room (4:33). Surgeon picks up scalpel and other surgeons / nurses / assistants support. Briefly, diagram of a brain shown (4:55). Headlights of car / planes appear chaotically in different dark shots (5:05). VW beetle drives away at night (5:35). Police car pulls up to parked VW beetle (5:45). Policemen get out, go to car, open VW driver’s seat, pull out a drunk young woman unable to stand on her own. They bring her to sit in the back of the police car. One officer gets in the police car and the other in the beetle; they follow each other while driving away. Dark shot of a plane taking off (6:22). Coffee pot against black background (6:29). Plate of food / peanuts against black background (5:34). Keys against black background (6:48). Taillights of car driving away in dark (7:00). Signs lit up in dark shot driving along road (view from inside of car), various cars passing (7:10). Credits (7:25) over image of overturned car with sirens / police / firemen present: Associate Producer: Hugh K. Terrell; Written, Produced, and Directed By [UNREADABLE WITH TIMESTAMP]; Cinematography By Peter P. Drown; Film Editing By Glen [UNREADABLE WITH TIMESTAMP]; Our special thanks to Joel B. Kirkpatrick, M.D., Roy Mills, Faculty Associate and the University Of Texas Health Science Center for the use of the film For Film [UNREADABLE WITH TIMESTAMP]. More words on screen (7:55): "The van crash and airport sequence were re-enactments of actual events." Then, "Produced By Visucom Productions." Screen goes to black. END.
Transcription
[Music] me and this gal i was with and her sister and a couple of the guys drove over to this kind of carnival place where the kids go sometimes when they have a day off [Music] even all the fun stuff you can do there like with the mirrors and hustle we had or some of these uh cops they had there illegal to have booze on the premises and well my friends kept saying you know hey relax man you know no one's going to catch us and i don't know i guess that was right so i popped a couple more cans and i guess i have to admit the rides were more fun that way of course i i knew i was gonna have to drive home when they close a place so i figured to stop drinking early you know but i i don't know like we're just having this real good time and then one thing led to another his name isn't important but his experience is brought to you through his own willingness to share a need of quite a few others influenced by some very special decisions courtesy of the most widely used mood modifying drug in the world [Music] things and for some time now i've shared their fun but while they have no way of knowing it before this evening is over we'll share quite a few other emotions together this guy brings it to school in his coat and he goes in the jaw and he drinks it and he comes out he just smells so terrible it's terrible the way things are going a lot of high school kids and things like drink on the weekends and go out and have a good time and party up and a lot of kids bring alcohol to school and you know like stash it in their locker or you know have it have a drink at lunch time or something go back to school and kind of kick back in class and enjoy it of course a lot of kids get busted too what did i tell you young people know and it betrays no particular big time secret to admit that there's growing concern about my influence and effects on young people both in and out of traffic and while some may regard i provide no humor at all on the highways me the largest single factor in the cause of fatal crashes yes it's true and that's not fun at all but in order to understand why you have to know created by the process okay if you drive right after you drink because it takes so long before it hits you hot coffee cold shower sodium every time it's just great and i know if i get out on the well as anyone who knows anything about anatomy or the human body knows all that common sense is so much nonsense because the facts are that unlike most foods i require no digestion and begin to have an effect almost the moment i'm swallowed though food in the stomach can slow me down somewhat and neither hot coffee or any other soda how much should a driver drink nothing a driver shouldn't take a single drop it's stupid it's dangerous and it's against the law i drink to get drunk you know you know some i drive better when i drunk and i i just love drinking and driving and i'm just going to keep on doing it i don't go out and drink excessively and go out on the street and drive you know a couple of drinks is okay but i know my limit almost as if the brain acted as a kind of uneraseable tape recorder faithfully recording every experience from the time of birth and infinite though those experiences are later researchers found that they clustered into three well-defined categories or ego states as one researcher observed you know that when i'm swallowed i rapidly enter your bloodstream and brain but while some scientists may describe my effects and suddenly i noticed all these big lights and these big airplanes come right at me wow it's really kind of exciting this has never happened here before and i was trying to drive real carefully it really was but i i really didn't have too much control it's kind of scary but the next day in the newspaper there's a story about this girl who had gone up onto the jet runway she could have been killed and she really caused a lot of problems for the authorities i guess that was me see what a a childlike decision with potential for disaster and so i'm depressed because i'm so badly used misused to misunderstood by so many people today just today around 50 young americans will be killed in cars because someone drank too much of me and made a childlike decision perhaps harmless at home but fatal in traffic [Music] childlike decisions catastrophic consequences because the child and you can be selfish and aggressive and for the child tomorrow's outcomes are never as important as today's fun [Music] all it does is create a wide awake drunk that's right time's the only rule to be sure that i eat something before drinking oh and for that matter while i'm drinking because i know that food in my stomach slows down the effects that alcohol has on me well you know if i've driven to a party where i know i'm going to have a lot to drink i always give my car keys to somebody who hasn't had a lot to drink if i'm given the party i serve food early and then i always have adult decisions by adult drivers who also know their own drinking limits and never use anyone else's as a guide and because things change they understand that even they may have different limits at different times depending on things like their mood and the setting in which their drinking takes place and knowing that i'm a chemical with power a adam you
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