THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH: 1916, 20 min., stars DouglasFairbanks Sr., as Detective “Coke Ennyday”, along with Bessie Love and Alma Reubens(who later went on to become one of Hollywood’s most notorious drug addicts in reallife). Written by Tod Browning (who made DRACULA and FREAKS) and supervised by D.W.Griffith, the plot revolves around a nervous drug-snorting private detective whobreaks up a drug ring based in Chinatown, with Coke Ennyday played as a hilariousparody of Sherlock Holmes. One of the classic “midnight movie” cult hits of theearly 70s, this film is one of the craziest, strangest silent movies ever made. THATOLD REEFER MAN: 1933, 5 min., A song performance excerpt from the 1933 feature film,INTERNATIONAL HOUSE. In this out-take we see the famous Jazz singer, Cab Callowayperform REEFER MAN. (Reefer of course referring to “Marijuana”) SWEET MARIJUANA:1934, 5 min., Another song performance here taken out of a 1934 feature film calledMURDER AT THE VANITIES. In this extremely strange dance number we see singer GertrudMichaels sing “Sweet Marijuana” - one of the most bizarre drug-related performances.MARIJUANA: WEED WITH ROOTS IN HELL: 1936, 5 min., A full-length theatrical trailerto Dwain Esper’s legendary exploitation film about the Marijuana menace of samename. THE PUSHER: 1955, 15 min., by Social Service Pictures, directed by DwainEsper. A filmed lecture that harps on the evils of drugs and includes all the bestscenes from Esper’s own 1936 film - MARIJUANA: WEED WITH ROOTS IN HELL which we justsaw the trailer to.