diana Member since January 14, 2007

Vid promoting Charles Leadbetter's new book "We Think".

Saw this originally at the Banff Mountain Film Fest.

From markapsolon: "Here is an old newsreel from castlefilms that I transfered to video. Far as I know this is the first time it has been seen by a wide audience since its release in 1939. I think this film is something that should be saved for our and other generations to see. The transfer was in HD so thats why the film is widescreen. Its a look at what Americans were seeing during the prelude to the second world war. I have several more of these newsreels with sound and if you guys like this one I will p

"A public domain gem! This is from a series of Social Seminar movies made for educational use. The original intent of this movie was to paint a cautionary picture of an LSD user. Instead, the editor, Howie Lester, made it into a fair and even sympathetic portrait of a young man living an alternate lifestyle.
They used to show this film every year in the drug awareness class we had to take with Mr. Blondin. Every year, people talked about how much fun it looked like to take acid, make pottery and live in B