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Genre/Form: | Video recordings Vidéos |
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Material Type: | Videorecording |
Document Type: | Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: | Guidance Associates. |
OCLC Number: | 17747391 |
Description: | 1 videocassette (13 min.) (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide |
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Fun '80s nostalgia piece
With Partnership for a Drug-Free America's 25th anniversary coming up next year, I'm surprised they haven't announced plans of compiling all their old ads onto DVD. With '80s nostalgia still being a major force in our culture, the time seems ripe for the PDFA to do a retrospective on their older PSAs....
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With Partnership for a Drug-Free America's 25th anniversary coming up next year, I'm surprised they haven't announced plans of compiling all their old ads onto DVD. With '80s nostalgia still being a major force in our culture, the time seems ripe for the PDFA to do a retrospective on their older PSAs. In the meantime we do have videotapes like this one to satisfy that need.
Anti-Drug TV Spots runs about 13 minutes and features over 17 public service announcements from the first year of Partnership for a Drug-Free America's long-running campaigns. A brief introduction is provided by Ed Clarkson of Guidance Associates (the company responsible for this compilation). He presents the tape from a very '80s-looking control room. It's a neat time capsule look at older technology.
The real stars of this video are the ads. There's a varied mix of well-known spots like "Frying Pan," "Like Father, Like Son," and "Surgeon" to more obscure but just as effective ads like "Ambulance," "Coroner," and "Vegetable." Since these commercials were produced in the 1980s, most of them focus on cocaine and its derivative crack. A few target marijuana, but it's cocaine and crack that get the most attention.
Here's a complete listing of the PSAs included on this tape.
- Nothing Happens
- Experiment
- Surgeon
- Frying Pan
- Rush
- Coroner
- Ambulance
- If
- Vegetable
- Glamorous World
- Lab Rat
- Candy Store
- Tricks of the Trade
- Like Father, Like Son
- Final Lesson
- Grave Words
- A Message from Walter Cronkite
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