“NARCOTICS – THE HARD STUFF ” 1957 ANTI-DRUG & DRUG ADDICTION POLICE TRAINING FILM XD50304

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part 1: https://youtu.be/NnNcqGVR5w0 This educational film titled “Narcotics – Hard Stuff” from 1957 is the second of two parts of a longer documentary / educational film titled “The Narcotics Story”. This portion of the film portrays the transition from drugs such as marijuana and barbiturate medication to heroin, and the symptoms of severe addiction. The film is a Police Science Production and was used for police training. It is highly dramatized. It is narrated by actor Art Gilmore. “Narcotics (Part II) – Hard Stuff” title banner (00:33). Informational text about drugs on screen (00:40). A suburban town (02:06). A husband waves goodbye to his wife and two children and drives to work (02:29). Close-up of a hand holding pills (03:10). Clips from the film: “Narcotics (Part I) – Goof Balls and Tea” (03:17). The owner of a street corner café is diluting and weighing heroin to be dealt (03:57). Other clips from Part I of the film, where three young friends are caught smoking marijuana by two police officers (06:27). A young girl escapes the arrest and warns the dealer, who had sold the marijuana to the three youngsters (07:36). They exit the backdoor to warn the café owner (08:07). The young girl agrees to safe keep any possessions to minimize suspicion from the dealer himself (08:29). The café owner also hides his heroin outside the café (09:10). The young girl leaves to a safe location at a house, offered by a man addicted to heroin (09:42). They smoke from the marijuana, which the young girl was carrying (11:14). He plays music to lighten the mood (12:01). The drug dealer rushes to his car but is caught by the police before he manages to escape (12:22). The young girl and the heroin addict are high at his house, and he starts his objective of initiating her addiction to heroin (13:56). He prepares his heroin and needle (15:46). He asks her to assist as he injects the heroin in himself, to spike her curiosity (19:11). At the police station, the drug dealer is stripped and searched, and afterwards he is interrogated (20:32). The heroin addict is identified by apprehend him (21:25). The heroin addict has successfully persuaded the young girl to test the drug, and he injects her (21:43). A woman suffering from heroin withdrawal, arrives to the house to buy a fix (25:01). The serious symptoms of withdrawal is frightening the young girl during her first heroin-high (25:53). The man takes her out of the house to avoid showing her more of the harsh reality of withdrawal (27:46). Two police officers arrive at the house just minutes later and arrest the woman still inside (28:25). The perform a thorough search of all rooms to locate all weapons, drugs, and drug-taking equipment (29:01). The woman is checked and shows physical signs of long-term addiction (36:07). Someone knocks the front door (37:33). They discover another woman in withdrawal in search of heroin (37:39). She is caught and searched (37:49). The withdrawal of the first women grows worse (38:07). Two police officers are ordered to stake out the house of the heroin addict (40:04). He is arrested upon his return (40:33). The police are searching for drugs outside the street corner café hidden by the owner (41:25). The locate a can of heroin and hide awaiting the owner to collect it (41:58). The owner return and is arrested (42:30). The young woman is walking in the streets after escaping detection multiple times (42:49). Continues transactions are made between money and valuables in exchange for drugs (44:07). The young girl is caught at last, and she interrogated by a female officer at the station, while suffering from withdrawal (45:24). The film is concluded with a clip of the woman in withdrawal at the house of the heroin addict (46:00). “The End” (46:12). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." 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. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com