“ LSD-25 ” 1967 EDUCATIONAL, ANTI-DRUG SCARE FILM CALIFORNIA HIPPIES & ACID TRIPS XD46554

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1967 color “scare” film, written and directed by Dr. David W. Parker and produced by Professional Arts, Inc. takes lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as its subject, offering an educational overview of the psychedelic drug’s chemical composition, effects, and potential dangers in a series of interviews and dramatizations (TRT: 26:29). Film begins as a drug deal is concluded. A young man in a tan jacket and goatee returns to an apartment, and takes a capsule, preparing for a “trip.” He looks into a mirror expectantly. His face blurs out of focus (0:07). Opening title: “LSD-25” (1:21). The chemical makeup of LSD is sketched out in title overlays while a narrator takes on the voice of acid, personified (1:28). The young man examines a rock necklace, triggering a psychedelic montage sequence of colorful images, text: “Now!” A man in thought. Abstract colors (2:10).