The dangers of LSD are driven home to teenagers in this classroom training film, which is "narrated" by an LSD tab. The "tab" tells kids that he is "a depth charge in the mind!" and various teenagers are shwn babbling about their LSD experiences. "Experts" are presented who warn that LSD makes kids "paint themselves green" and has various other horrible side effects, the most serious of which is that it gives users a police record, and that there is "no known way of getting your fingerprints out of a police file once they're in there."
Acting
Vito Paulekas and Carl Franzoni: professional hippies playing themselves.
Writing
Dialogue written by someone who's definitely never seen drugs.
Production
The talking LSD tab puppet deserves its own spinoff series.
Director
David Parker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film emerged during the 1967 'Summer of Love' backlash, when media panics about LSD peaked with urban legends about chromosome damage and 'instant psychosis.'
Carl Franzoni and Vito Paulekas were actual counterculture figures from the Sunset Strip scene, making their performances either meta-commentary or desperate rent money—historians still debate which.
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