“ALCO BEAT” 1965 DRUNK DRIVING SCARE FILM EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ON HUMAN PERCEPTION XD46384

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This 1965 color film from Cahill & Associates of Hollywood, California tackles the issue of drunk driving, using a demonstration of an impaired driver in a test course to illustrate the hazards of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol (TRT: 11:31).
Focus leader (0:07). A record spins on an automatic turntable. A man inflates a balloon at a party in a train dining car. Narration: “This is the most unusual party you’ve ever attended. These people are deliberately getting drunk, with the later intention… of driving automobiles under the supervision not only of safety officials and police officers, but the parent teacher’s association...” (0:15). Opening titles: “Alco Beat, Presented by Cahill & Associates” over a cocktail with a cherry and blaring big band music (0:53). A wide shot of a specially prepared driver’s obstacle course in a parking lot near Reno, Nevada. A woman exits a train car labeled “Alco Drivers Test” as a cameraman rolls film. She is escorted by a smiling police officer (1:03). Real-life footage of automobiles on a freeway. Closeups on various drivers. A car runs through an intersection. A foot reaches for the brake pedal (1:23). A smashed white car is towed away. Adults drink and dance at a house party (1:48). A patient in scrubs is anesthetized. Animation overlay: A bottle marked with X’s (2:24). Night driving. A drawing of dark glasses is overlaid. A driver is pulled over by a police officer. A crowd of onlookers stares (2:44). A field sobriety test is administered. The driver fails to touch his nose (3:33). A man has his blood pressure checked by a doctor. Test drivers arrive (4:12). A map of the test course illustrates a reaction time test. A crowd of spectators sit and watch a male driver (4:20). A woman driver dons a helmet. She maneuvers around bales of hay (4:59). We return to the party scene. The woman driver is given a breathalyzer test. A man has blood drawn. Blood samples are collected (5:32). A vision test is administered (6:22). The drunk drivers show delayed reaction times on the course. Pylons and bales of hay are knocked over (6:41). Titles: “Peripheral Vision dropped 18 degrees, Depth Perception deteriorated to 26% of normal, Reaction Time increased 25% to 50% (8:10). A doctor speaks. A woman takes a field sobriety test while witnesses laugh. The man’s sobriety test also goes poorly and he is arrested (8:38). An elderly man stumbles in a sobriety test. A man is taken into police custody (10:49). End credits: Produced in cooperation Independent Insurance Agents of Northern Nevada, the City of Reno, the Nevada State Medical Association, the Nevada State Optometric Association, the Nevada Safety Council, and the Nevada State P.T.A. (11:06).
According to the CDC, excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year. Alcoholism is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
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[@nallo69]

Just loved the music

[@Rfk1966]

Great soundtrack!

[@damxgopak457]

My grandparents really knew how to party.

[@napoleonlempereur3021]

My Grandparents in Germany to !🇩🇪❤🇺🇸

[@geoffreybradford]

The crowd that gathers when the guy gets pulled over 😬

[@milmex317th]

Never talk. By the way. Was audience Drinking?

[@BeingFireRetardant]

Back in the 1960's, when science was a bleacher contest, horn rimmed glasses were official, and you needed a ginger calling plays over the CB radio to really make it legitimate. We've come a long way. Nowadays it's just housewives on Percocet blowing through intersections...

[@darrylgonzalez78]

I never drink more than one when driving. I seldom drink alcohol at all. Like most teenagers, I wondered what it would be like to booze it up at a party, until two things happened. One, I was in the middle of a troop of Boy Scouts who were fed Everclear (without their knowledge, the lemonade was spiked) at summer camp, kids as young as 11 years old (I was 16 at the time and thankfully, had none). Two, at 17 I attended the funeral of a beautiful young lady I had known who was 19 and was killed by a drunk driver (her boyfriend) while on the way home from a party.

[@jasenweitekamp2036]

That background music was intoxicating!

[@milmex317th]

Balloons and rock n roll, I need this video Covid AA.

[@manhoot]

Moral of the story is don't drink and drive.🍺🚫

[@seanbatiz6620]

Seen a video very much like this one, possibly the same one when I was in driver’s ed in @ 1990.. sent the link to my mom who graduated HS in ‘68; said she’d definitely seen it back then!

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

put it nicely I loathe drunk drivers and drunks even when some are family members their the worst

[@d.b.2812]

I remember the ones we watched. I think one was called Flesh,Blood, Glass and Metal. Real car wrecks and gore.

[@geoffreybradford]

And “Blood on the Highway” . A real hit.

[@DavianSinner]

Ours was "Signal 30". The teachers warned us, and some kids waited outside the classroom. Some left in the middle of it when they saw the images of accidents with bodies.

[@LL-bl8hd]

That was actually pretty interesting and entertaining. Hopefully it convinced a few people.

[@ypaulbrown]

missed this one in Drivers Ed...

[@markdraper3469]

Wow! What a mish-mash of scene locations. In '65 I lived an hour's bicycle ride from Hollywood. 30 years later, I lived within walking distance of the test area in the film. My first neighbor in Reno, seeing my motorcycle, related this story> In '64 (a year before this film), one of the local streets actually came through that rail yard. (Most likely the one blocked off running across the test area start @4:27.) One night, he was riding his Duo-Glide while a bit inebriated wearing not a helmet but one of those jaunty driving caps and failed to see a crossing locomotive. He crashed and sustained a head injury that he physically recovered from. He made the papers twice (showed me the articles). This added fuel to the argument of at least having a Flagman present during crossings. But by '74, I-80 was complete and that area was closed to traffic anyway.

[@dannyhood7433]

Good comment. I cannot imagine growing up around Hollywood. I haven't been there since early 90s. But actually growing up in hollywood during 50s - 70s? I'm sure it was lot better back then, When this drunk cops film was made, I wasnt even born yet!

[@markdraper3469]

​@@dannyhood7433 It's tough to say. Every year is transitional. Any stories you'd hear would certainly be sourced in a particular perspective. I probably remember it differently than my more affluent classmates. And the ones who stayed there.

[@warrendubeau851]

I may have seen this one in Drivers Ed back around 1980 or so. One film like this had professional racers and one of them started doing donuts in the middle of his drunk test.

[@paddlefaster]

.15? It's hard to believe that was once legal.

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

The White Lab Coat Guy recommended reducing the standard to 0.10 at 9:00.

[@KonaFocus]

If this was done today, the test subjects would probably be ticketed for DUI after the test was done 🤪

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

A ticket won't stick if the violation was because of a policeman's instruction. That's the law.

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

A drunk driver shattered my family before I was born the p o s killed my family members and the next day put everything it owned in his mother's name back in 1962

[@ravenclawavenger2170]

The limits in this film no longer apply. 0.05 % is now legally drunk.

[@hermanman8235]

There's one thing they won't fail ➡️making the spectator's laugh.

[@Jesussaves1982]

Nearly six decades later and is still a major problem

[@TheGravygun]

nothing like a few Road beers

[@pratikkadam8603]

Oho Standardized Field Sobriety Test and Modified Romberg Test.

[@bobbyheffley4955]

Moral of the story: If you drink, don't drive. If you drive, don't drink.

[@almostfm]

I know for pilots, the common saying is "Eight hours from bottle to throttle". They've found that if you've been drinking, even if you blow a 0.0, your body still has some effects lingering for a couple of hours.

[@BMUSTDIE]

In the '60, when one was pulled over did crowds automatically manifest themselves in order to jeer at you.

[@steve-ph9yg]

Pretty much did it was the neighborhood entertainment.

[@jamesslick4790]

I have seen fewer people watch a working house fire, LOL.

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

Beats watching another Bonanza rerun.

[@jamesslick4790]

0:30 - 0:39 Or as we call it in Pittsburgh: Just another night on East Carson Street.

[@operatorjeffdeathstar7759]

.15 % is double what is allowed today in Canada!

[@charlieinsingapore]

Three times than in Australia.

[@joeswan6747]

.10 here in the state of ohio

[@tomcline5631]

Missouri is .08% unless you have a CDL then it's .04%! I have a CDL, and even though I don't drink,I'm still a nervous wreck if I need to take NyQuil!!

[@alkatraz8163]

Interesting that the BAC limit in the 60's was .15%. Later it was lowered to .11%. Again, it has been lowered to .08%. Was the " science " incorrect then, or is there something else occurring to explain this?

[@almostfm]

Essentially, all science is "incorrect" in that it's never 100% complete. But over time, you learn more and more, and the incorrectness is reduced. Over the past 55 years, we've learned a lot about how even small amounts of alcohol in the bloodstream can affect your judgment and reaction times.

[@dirtywhiteboy4963]

@@almostfm same can be said for having a bad day or just being an asshole of a person. it has effects on your driving skills.

[@jarikinnunen1718]

Drinkers have variety of tolerance. One guy can take one and other ten to same drunkenness.

[@hermanman8235]

Got some truth on that.we called it "tolerance " and/or "experience".but I don't condone drink: drive attitude.

[@bobbyheffley4955]

Even so, drunk driving is still unlawful and rightly so.

[@superdragUSA1]

"....take it from me, Rick Dalton".

[@PUNKMYVIDEO]

Next time, make that one for the road a tab of LSD. 😁👍

[@Keithbarber]

Even with a 0% limit and a lifetime ban for 0.1% first offence *IT WOULD NOT STOP SOME IDIOTS* I once worked with some fool who *SERIOUSLY BELIEVED* that _"he could handle a car better after 4 pints"_ than when he was sober but he only had a provisional licence. I hope he never passed his driving test as he would drive to the pub, get rat arsed, and crash on his way home

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Peter Gunn, the lost DUI episode.

[@patsmith6867]

. . . . I knew Sombody would comment on the Music . I couldn't find the name of the Artist or the name of the Song . :)

[@dementedweasel1]

What I don't understand is; Did those people have to pay for that booze they swilled or did they get it for free?

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

The booze is cheap. I'm wondering who loaned his Galaxie to the drunks.

[@dementedweasel1]

@@21stcenturyfossil7 All they had out there to hit looked to be traffic cones and straw bales. Those Galaxies were pretty durable back then. But I still wouldn't have loaned my Galaxie to those drunks myself. Perhaps it was a rental car?

[@21stcenturyfossil7]

@@dementedweasel1 Maybe the Galaxie's owner was convicted of DUI and he was sentenced to watching other drunks lurch his car around.

[@dementedweasel1]

@@21stcenturyfossil7 If so, then that would cure him! Especially if any drunks were to puke in his car. Harder than anything to get that smell out and not much resale value I would think.

[@alihussain4349]

Not a seat belt in sight.

[@almostfm]

It wasn't until three years after this was made that they became mandatory to be installed in new cars in the US, although they'd been optional in cars going back to the late 1940s. My parents were one of the few people I know who had them installed and used them going back to the first cars I remember them having, which were a 1960 and a 1962. They were friends with some local racers, and they all used them in their racecars and passenger cars, so they adopted the rule that one of the racers had-the car doesn't move until everybody in it is buckled in. My first car was a 1967 Lincoln and it didn't have them installed. I was so used to wearing them that it felt damned weird driving home without one. The day after I bought the car, I bought a set of belts and installed them.

[@Willow16674]

Thankfully I don't like alcohol

[@dirtywhiteboy4963]

funny .....i drank so much [ when i woke up and then all day ...just beer] i drove better when i was drinking....really! only beer and somewhere around 12 pints of cheap beer......i'm sure i would be over the limit according to the law but i felt fine. i just stopped drinking 8 plus months ago and feel fine....i thought it would be a bitch to quit but i was o.k. and i know my body had to like it!

[@tyroniousyrownshoolacez2347]

Takeaway: just don't let women drive , drunk or sober. 🤔?

[@claudermiller]

MAGA!! Bring back drunk driving!