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Subject: Narcotics (1951)

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Subject: Narcotics (1951)
Sponsor: Anti-Narcotic League of America. Producers/Directors: Denis Sanders, Terry Sanders. Writers: Denis Sanders, Terry Sanders, Jay Sandrich. Narrators: Frank Wolff, Bernard Kortick. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 21 minutes.

Training film for law enforcement personnel that outlines the effective handling of drug users. Shot in downtown Los Angeles, Subject: Narcotics sets scenes in shooting galleries and shows addicts in withdrawal.

Note: Technical advice was provided by the narcotics unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department. Denis and Terry Sanders later made the Oscar-winning short A Time Out of War.

Resources
Educational Film Guide (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1953), 540; Ken Smith, Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films, 1945–1970 (New York: Blast Books, 1999), 210.