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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website Narrated by Robert Mitchum, “A Bridge From No Place” is a documentary in the series “The Distant Drummer“ that looks at widespread drug use in America and the efforts to minimize its spread through rehabilitation centers. An Airlie Production, the film is composed of interviews with doctors, researchers, law officials, and recovering addicts and also features footage of various community-based and state-sponsored rehabilitation centers from across the United States. George Washington University Department of Medical and Public Affairs, the National Institute of Mental Health, the District of Columbia Medical Society, and the American Academy of General Practice produced the film. “The Distant Drummer“ is a short-lived series of four 22-minute American documentary films produced in the early 1970s as a societal warning against the proliferation of drugs during the counterculture of the 1960s. The films were directed by William Templeton and written by Don Peterson.. Kids sing “London Bridge is Falling Down” in front of brick residential brownstones (0:13). Interview young adult from bedroom of communal house (0:30). Kids playing (1:29). Residential suburban street, kids play on sidewalk as snow melts (1:46). Inmates at prison gather in rec room (2:03). Nurses examine patients (2:07). Portraits of “drug users:” montage of scenes of people from various walks of life (2:19). Interviews with young adult male “hippies” describing their journey with drugs (2:36). Students stream out of high school, school bus parked in front (3:47). Exterior National Institute of Health, Maryland (4:08). Interview Dr. Stanley F. Euless (4:17). Store front in Harlem, sign for Caribbean and Spanish disco music (4:44). Scientist adjusts equipment in lab (4:47). Subjects of basic studies of cognitive behavior relating to drug addiction (4:55). Street scenes Lexington, Kentucky (5:11). Lexington-Fayette County Courthouse (5:18). Exterior Federal Medical Center, Lexington (5:23). Patients line up for meal at canteen (5:40). Welders remove iron bars at hospital (6:24). Rehabilitation art class, camera pans completed paintings (6:33). Addiction Research Center, Kentucky: addicts roll joints and smoke while supervised by doctor (6:53). More scenes research subjects connected to machines with wires (8:10). Aerial view of rural Kentucky (8:37). Man passed out in Manhattan doorway (8:47). Prescription drugs in pharmacy (8:50). Sign for M Lerman Monuments Stanton Street, Manhattan (8:53). Youth raise fists and chant against authority, police in riot gear march in unison (9:00). College students walk UCLA campus (9:14). Exterior of US Supreme Court (9:17). Interview David L. Bazelon Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals (9:27). California Rehabilitation Center, manicured grass lawns (9:49). Barbed wire fence enclosing prison facility (9:53). Inmates at rehab center workout at outdoor gym (9:55). Traffic sign for California Rehabilitation Center (10:06). New York City skyline (10:15). United States Capitol Building (10:22). Recovering addicts sit along Santa Monica beach at Synanon center (10:46). A recovering addict, Don Parker discusses residential therapeutic communities (10:56). Group talk therapy sessions (11:26). Therapy circle at New York City’s Daytop Village on Suffolk Street (12:06). Street scenes in New York City (12:27). Empty, junk-filled lot enclosed by brick apartment buildings (12:32). Off Broadway theater performance, actors are recovering addicts (12:43). Scientists conduct tests on monkeys in lab (13:17). Methadone distribution center counter, Chicago (13:49). Young woman organizes methadone supply (14:02). Dr. Vincent Dole (14:09). Don Parker interview (14:38). Bottles cyclazocine (15:05). Exeter House community center, fire-escapes line facade of NYC tenements (15:19). Recovering addicts learning new crafts: pottery, carpentry (15:34). Mental health counselor in session with patient (16:03). Clips seeking to evoking feeling of the “urban ghetto:” Empty, junk-filled lot (17:07). Middle-upper class suburban homes / suburbia (17:30). Court room: arresting officer, defendant, court reporter types on stenotype machine (18:23). Interview Joseph Oteri, Boston Attorney (19:39). Pedestrian traffic on streets of New York City (20:37). Wild poppy flower (20:42). Cannabis or marijuana plant (20:49). Summative montage (20:59). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
