Alcohol and Red Flares

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Sid Davis Productions

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Follows a young adult who is arrested for drunken driving through the process of being booked and placed in a drunk tank to sober up. Shows him as he attends a traffic safety class, discovering the grim relationship between drinking and driving, and watching a documentary on the bloody results of mixing liquor and gasoline.

Complete Record: A party, people drinking, one drunk man leaves with wife and gets into car, they drive off, a police car is behind them and he crashes into a trash can, he’s taken into custody and given a breath test, then is told to walk a straight line, which he can’t, he’s then put into a cell with others; next day he is printed and has his mug shot taken, then he is taken into court and shown the film of his failed sobriety test; he goes to a class dealing with the dangers of drinking and driving, as the class goes on, several people look back on their drinking, they are shown a film on alcohol levels and the effects they have on people, this includes the effects on driving; then they are shown a film of bloody drunk driving accidents and their victims; he goes to a bar a few days later and drives off drunk, he crashes and goes off a cliff; it is just a dream, he almost drives off drunk but this time he decides not to.