“ NEED FOR DECISION ” 1968 EFFECTS OF ALCOHOLISM ON EMPLOYEES DRINKING AWARENESS FILM XD46334

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1968 black and white film produced by Peckham Production, Inc. for Union Carbide Chemical Corporation shines a light on the disease of alcoholism, dramatizing the case of “Bob,” a plant worker whose performance is slipping, to illustrate the dangers of alcohol use in a professional context, while offering pointers to managers who suspect their employees are alcoholics (TRT: 12:35). A slow pan across a photograph of an urban alley reveals an unhoused or homeless person laying among trash cans. Bottles of alcohol in closeup and a montage of derelicts. A man props himself up on a lamppost (0:09). A wide angle fisheye lens distorts men in an office hallway. Office employees at work review documents. Women work at typewriters (1:19). An elderly man at work in a factory. An office building corridor (1:53). A weary employee. Opening titles: “Need for Decision” (2:07)