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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 This 1970s educational film “Jackson Junior High“ was produced for the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare looks at why people choose or choose not to drink. It does this by example of a substitute teacher who does not drink, who speaks with her class about an “alcohol project“ they have to do. It begins with an animated history of alcohol including how alcohol is made and how different cultures consume it. This is followed by discussions between the teacher and her students on what type of people drink, interjected with her own experiences being pressured to drink at parties and refusing. It ends with the class interviewing different people on why they drink. 0:25 “Jackson Junior High”, 0:29 kids getting ready to learn about alcohol, 0:50 a woman that looks like a student trying to find her classroom, 1:17 the woman enters the class as a substitute teacher, 1:58 students have a debate with each other, 3:04 a flashback to the substitute teacher being pressured to have a sip of alcohol, 3:29 teacher continues talking to the class, 3:58 animation of creatures playing in a band while a person sings about the history of alcohol, 4:33 grapes growing which are mixed with yeast and heat to show fermentation, 5:25 a man makes his own alcohol and tries different combinations, 6:16 different historical instances of social drinking including the ancient Chinese, the Greeks, and Noah with his Arc, 6:32 an animated German man working on a distillery to create Schnapps, 7:23 song about different cultures drinking different types of alcohol including Jews, Italians, Germans, Chinese, Russians, Scots, English, and French, 8:15 the teacher and her boyfriend at a restaurant speaking to each other, 9:19 the students speaking to the teacher, 9:39 different types of “drinkers” including “tough guys” at a bar, sophisticated drinkers, and a couple drinking in a car, 10:30 the teacher speaking with the students, 11:05 the kids interviewing different people about why they drink, 12:24 the teacher at a party at home being pressured to drink, 12:48 the teacher speaking to her parents at a barbecue, 13:47 the teacher speaking to the students, 14:25 Credits, produced by the Norther Virginia Educational Telecommunications Association for the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ 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
