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From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: cocaine in (very) old coke... and sugar (1912 movie)
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 19:25:04 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 19:25:04 1985
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Just curious, but about a week ago AMC (cable tv channel) showed a very
old (1912?) silent, sepiatone anti-coca-cola propaganda movie.  It was
quite (self) serious and followed the history of a product called
KOKADOPA which was quite transparently a dark colored fizzy soft drink
with cocaine in it. Great scenes of the evil inventor putting mounds of
cocaine from a pharmaceutical bottle into the mixture and mothers
spending the rent money on the stuff while their children starved.  In
the end the inventor (a doctor's son...that may have been the title?)
comes to no good as a broken and addicted young man scorned by everyone
and his prominent doctor father broken-hearted over his son's fall.

Anyone else catch it? Great flick.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University