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This educational short film features two hideously dressed children (girl and boy)who are talking about drugs, I think. The girl had a lady come and talk to her class about drugs. The girl basically recounts the speakers' message to her brother, the message seems to compare drugs to many things including a lake, children's' games, a girl getting cookies and falling, and swinging on a rope into the aforementioned lake. The kids are building something with Legos, which develops into a subplot. Eventually the Lego thing is destroyed after the girl changes the design, the kids speculate that people are like that machine, in that if you change one thing(doing drugs) you can destroy your life.

I remember seeing this anti-drug film reel short along with a bunch of others. This was the only one that in 5-6th grade we all laughed a bit and made fun of it during the showing, LOL. --- our teacher didn't even give us a hard time about it since it was obvious this was anti-drug propaganda at its worse. the kid falling trying to take cookies from a jar was so stupid, and then they said 'drugs are like that'. At lunch that day everyone was bashing the film, throwing food on the floor and then saying "drugs are like that" etc. very dumb but some other anti-drug movies were dumb also, nothing like this one -- it takes the cake (or cookies). Thought of this since a friend that made a movie used some stock clips from it, person water skiing etc.

I saw this short rifled on by the RiffTrax guys. That is the only fun you'll get from this work. Also, you will see that inane comparisons, politically-speaking, have been around for quite some time.

We are expected to believe: * infants are addicted to teethers *a small child injuring herself climbing after cookies is the same thing as a drug addict trying to find more drugs *drugs are like Legos in that both are colorful *playing "step on a crack" or similar games become a habit, just like drugs; also biting fingernails and twirling hair *an athletic child twirling in a playground swing (to make him "feel funny") is the same as, well, you know *taking one piece from a perpetual motion machine, " for kicks",is just like using drugs

We, the audience, are told the barest amount of facts. Yes, if you do not check a rope swing at a lake, it could break on you. Swimming too far, like across a lake, may be too difficult and put you in danger. Habits are easy to start and hard to stop.

If we took this short at face value, cars would be outlawed due to the POTENTIAL of getting into an accident. We would be unable to plays sports after one twirl in a swing, which gets us dizzy. ( It is implied through a montage that the kid cannot swing a bat, catch a ball *or* run to a base due to being so dizzy.)

Nothing about helpful drugs, like the ones that help a boy in a leg cast. Nothing about talking with your parents about any of the supposed points of this short. I was disappointed to see that grants from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting went to this. (This is a short from 1969; the money is spent.)

The RiffTrax version is the best way to watch this. They point out all the stupid and the maddening repetition.