PSA Movietime Fun

Half a beer, one leapfrog too many, and then she fell off a cliff in Maui.

ALCOHOL AND YOU (28 minutes, color, 1969). Produced by Max Miller for Avanti Films, Bailey-Film Associates, Los Angeles, California:

“This film establishes that young people are growing up in a drinking society in which it is easy for them to slip into the attitudes and drinking patterns of the one-in-fifteen drinkers who become alcoholic. Well known physicians provide concrete illustrations of the health hazards and emphasize that excessive drinking will produce the same physiological and social deterioration as alcoholism.”

[Images found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Ghost Theme Park, Are You Popular?, Ray Charles & Tommy Emmanuel

The second or third Happiest Place on Earth.

Japanese theme park Nara Dreamland was built in 1961 but was permanently closed in 2006 due to declining attendance. At one time this place was filled with laughter; now it’s just spooky. This is what it looks like after years of neglect. [via].

“Are You Popular?” I wish I’d seen this 1947 PSA when I was in High School. All my dates could have been spatulas and 2x4s.

Ray Charles performs at an elementary school in London in a 1964 film “Ballad In Blue” [via].

Tommy Emmanuel is amazing. No formal training, can’t read or write music, yet his sound is incredible with an unmistakable Chet Atkins influence. He reminds me of Leo Kottke.

Have a great weekend, folks. There’s more to come.