Product Details

• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Fantoma
• DVD Release Date: November 6, 2001
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005QAPM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #225,979 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beware of Talking Hot Dogs!, January 24, 2002

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"plumbinsane" (Reading, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Educational Archives, Vol. 1 - Sex & Drugs (DVD)

Man, this is one of the best DVDs I've purchased in a long time. Most of the dialogue from "Narcotics: Pit of Despair" is just BEGGING to be sampled. And it's got the guy from "Freaks and Geeks" in it!!! And where else can you see Sonny Bono (in a gold lame` suit, no less!) telling kids the dangers of marijuana "in their own language". This MUST'VE bee some kind of community service he had to do, or something...There is also a rad case study of some girl's acid trip where her hot dog starts screaming when she tries to eat it, so she squishes/"kills" it. Dunno, that sounds kind of fun to me...

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Check your focus..., December 10, 2001

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David V. Matthews (Aliquippa, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Educational Archives, Vol. 1 - Sex & Drugs (DVD)

This is a campy collection of films, true, but a collection that provides a detailed look at a bygone era's increasingly futile attempts at quashing youthful rebellion.

Unfortunately, seven of the twelve films here are "condensed"--i.e., edited to keep the DVD's running time under two hours and thus (presumably) keep the price affordable. This collection still provides much cinematic pleasure, though true edufilm fans should see the complete versions of such classics as MARIJUANA (narrated by a zonked-out Sonny Bono) and NARCOTICS: PIT OF DESPAIR (the only film here I actually saw in school; I never forgot the cobra scenes). At least the DVD presents the uncut version of the proto-Lynchian ABC OF SEX EDUCATION FOR TRAINABLES.

Maybe Fantoma will release these films uncondensed on DVD someday.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Big Kick In The Head, May 9, 2005

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Andre S. Grindle "Andre' Grindle" (Brewer Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Educational Archives: Sex & Drugs (DVD)

What makes these films so enjoyable for me is that when they were made,they were intended as dead serious educational material.HA!Maybe that's why they're so facinating now or,at the very worst,surreal fodder.Some films are hilerious and laughable,such as a case study on LSD in which a girl trips that a hot dog turns into a troll.Others are just bizzare-such as Sonny Bono trying to make clear the good and bad about marijuana even while he behaves as if he himself is stoned.A couple of the films are rather dull such as the boring classroom instructional 'Human Growth' and some are actually pretty serious warnings about the dangers of syphillis and sex education for mentally challaged adults.And not to be missed is 50's movie star Sal Mineo's bizzare song at the end of the
smug 'LSD-Insight Or Insanity'.These are really fun if your looking for a good laugh at the absurdity of youth education of the day,or if your just into weird propaganda.