https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5b3b31b3-147f-423a-8dff-61d0537f1d4e Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This film "A Crutch for All Seasons" (a play on the title of the 1966 film "A Man for All Seasons") dates to 1969 and was presented by Narcotics Education, Inc.. The film contrastsacceptable everyday crutches such as coffee and nicotine and then continues with abusers telling their stories about their relationship with drugs and addiction. The film is photographed by Toge Fujihira, edited by Erwin Dumbrille, produced by Burt Martin, and written and directed by Charles Davis. Altering scenes of nature (00:10). A window (00:16). A mother and son (00:19). Altering scenes of people of different ages (00:22). Three girls and a father are seated at their dining table (00:29). Credits (00:40). Main titles (00:44). The father sips coffee (00:55). Credits (01:00). A man arrives to his office (01:17). The secretary displays annoyance (01:21). The man is smoking cigarettes in his office (01:38). The secretary smokes at her desk (01:44). A man is sipping from a glass and eyeing a woman (01:58). He approaches her (02:28). A man is dancing at a small party (02:40). All guests are smoking (02:48). A woman starts to dance (03:03). Someone drunk enters a car with a passenger (03:12) and starts driving (03:27). They crash (03:30). A man takes heroin (03:36). A news reporter introduces his investigation of drug abuse (03:45). Addict, Beth, tells her story (04:30). A suburban neighborhood (04:47). An office complex (04:58). Beth’s mom (05:05). Beth watches her mother drive from home (05:23). Beth sits in her room (05:34) and her mother and father kisses her goodbye (05:37). Beth comes home (05:53) and strolls around the ho use alone (06:06). She is driving with her friend, Billy (06:12). Billy picks up Beth (06:22). They look through a telescope (06:25). They look bored sitting on Billy’s car (06:38). Beth sits with her parents at their dining table (06:48). Her and Billy smoke a joint in Billy’s car (07:02). Beth lays on her bed (07:26). She eats breakfast with her parents (07:35). Beth’s school (07:40). Beth and Billy smoke marijuana at school (07:52). Beth dancing (08:03). At a party Beth’s friend, Joan, is sick on the floor (08:13). Her friend, Larry, attempts helping Joan (08:17). Billy becomes mad and starts a fight with Larry (08:21), and then attacks Beth (08:25). Beth runs home crying (08:33). She confesses her addiction to her parents (08:44). They go inside (09:00). The reporter introduces Frank, an alcoholic (09:06). Frank speaks about his addiction (09:23). He eats lunch in a restaurant with his receptionist, Mellie (09:49). Mellie hands her daughter to a babysitter (10:23) and goes out with Frank (10:33). They’re at a dinner party, having drinks (10:37). They have drinks in a bar (10:53). Views of Frank in his office (10:57). Mellie cooked dinner for Frank (11:15). They arrive at a bar (12:01). They leave the bar intoxicated and enter their car (12:41). A car accident happens (12:50). Close-up of Frank’s face portraying grief over Mellie’s death (12:55). Frank is sleeping (13:06). Altering scenes of Frank drinking, thinking of Mellie, and driving while intoxicated (13:09). He wakes up and observes trees outside his window (13:20). The reporter introduces Max (13:45). Max speaks about his journey to addiction (13:47). Max leaves a pool hall (14:23). Max and his father are arguing (14:41). Max returns to the pool hall (15:00). He meets a man wanting to buy heroin (15:10). Max is laying down, high on heroin (15:40). He buys drugs from a dealer (15:46). Max admits himself to a hospital to seek help (15:52). He suffers from withdrawal (15:59). He leaves the hospital off drugs (16:15). He starts working at a gas station (16:22). Max gets angry at his employer (16:35). He does heroin again (16:47). Footage of Max having withdrawal; he neglects checking the brakes on a car (16:56). The car on a mountain road, brakes fail, a bad car accident (17:25). The reporter speaks about addiction (18:00). Beth speaks about recovery (18:54). Frank speaks about recovery (19:34). The reporter interviews Max about recovery (20:16). “A New Beginning” text overlay (21:51). Credits (21:55). For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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