[PW] ? 1970s Prescription Pill Bottles

[S M Colowick]

In the film _Starting Over_ (1979) there's a scene in a department
store where Burt Reynolds (I think) asks, "Does anyone have a valium?"
and everyone in the crowd (all women?)  pulls out a bottle. But I
don't know if there were any close shots.

Susie

On 2/16/07, Robert Sullivan <robert.g.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
> For use in a movie being shot locally, we need to find a pill bottle
> (or image thereof) from ca. 1978.  They need it by Sunday, and it will
> be in close-up so it needs to be realistic.  This would probably be
> something with a typed label, as opposed to (for example) what is
> shown in the Physician's Desk Reference.
>
> I remember aspirin bottles but am a little fuzzy on what prescriptions
> looked like.  The person I spoke with at the nearby National Bottle
> Museum thought they should be plastic.  There's a drugstore museum at
> an area college, but no one is answering there.
>
> Perhaps a movie of that era in which someone is taking pills?  If I
> could think of a title I'd see what we have on the shelf.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
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> Bob Sullivan
> Schenectady Digital History Archive
> <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
> Schenectady County (NY) Public Library
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