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Cities: Living in a Machine
Overlap of several faces. MS of Dr. Appleton Spilhous talking to camera. MS of construction worker. CU of boots, pan up to man sitting in the park. Looking across a huge crowd of people moving down an urban street. Model of future city.
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Urban Scenes in Mazar-I-Sharif
Urban Scenes in Mazar-I-Sharif (aka Mazar-e Sharif) in northern Afghanistan. Good scenes of third world poverty.
Crime
A funny staged crime. A car pulls into an industrail area. A person wearing a hooded jacket w/ the hood hiding his face, ducks down behind soem barrels. Car stops & man pulls out a gun. The man w/ the hood is shot in the back & he falls over in a melodramatic manner.
Homemade Satellite Dish
MS exterior of Satellite dish shop in Mazar-i-Sharif (aka Mazar-e Sharif) in Northern Afghanistan. Afghan men & boys pose with homemade satellite dish made of metal boxes of Resolve carpet shampoo. Pan over to people (including women in burquas) walking down the street. Pan back to men with satellite dish. MS homemade satellite dish. Zoom in to MS of man working in satellite dish shop. Pan over to other small shops on the street. MS of two boys standing next to the satellite dish. CU box of Resolve carpet shampoo, which is part of the dish. CU Afghan man talking about the dish.
Crime
Type on a black screen lists the crime fighting equipment that they will discuss in the film. A line of police cars driving towards the camera. MS shot of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark sitting at his desk, talking to the camera about the future of crime fighting.
Crime
A young woman sitting in front of a reel to reel tape recorder. She records herself saying "a bomb will go off at 3 o'clock" using different methods to disguise her voice. They are testing an early voice print machine. Woman analyses the graphs from the voice print.
Crime
Various shots of experiment in a lab using lasers. The bright red beam of the typical laser. VO suggests that these technologies will become so advaced that criminals will not have the funds or intelligence to use them.
Crime
CU of a patch on the arm of a customs inspector, pull back. People in an airport having luggage checked. (baggage screening, luggage screening, airport security, terrorism) Various shots of people being checked before they can enter an airplane. Shot of a plane taking off. MS of Ben Johnson talking about a police force in the air (air marshal) More shots of planes lifting off. Camera travels across the tarmak.
Islam in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Islam in Post-Taliban Afghanistan
Crime
CU of water, waves. Tugboat on the water. MS former New York police specialist Ralph Salerno. He talks about organized crime (mob, gangsters). LS of street in Manhattan, lot of cars. Back to Ralph.
Crime
Woman on busy street corner. VO alludes to the fact that she is a prostitute. Men stop & talk to her. She leaves w/ one of them. Ralph Salerno walking on the waterfront, talking about the future of crime, computer crime, human organs, etc. Various shots of the boats & people on the waterfront.
Crime
Looking up at a skyscraper. B-roll shots of downtown Chicago, bridge over the Chicago river, Marina City. MS shot of former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark sitting at his desk, talking to the camera. Shot of the Chicago Police Headquarters on State Street. Police officer taking an emergency call. CU of the light on the top of a police car. CU of police answering emergency calls & pushing little buttons.
Sheberghan Prison
Sheberghan (Shebrigan) Prison in Northern Afghanistan MS Main Gate of Sheberghan Prison. Northern Alliance or State Afghan soldiers pose in Soviet brown woodland camouflage uniforms & AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifles in front of the prison.
Crime
Ramsey Clark sitting at his desk. Police officer talking to a community (outreach). Camera at the rear of a full room. CU of faces. CU of woman talking about her fear of crime. More shots of the community meeting. Most of the people are African American talking to the white police officer. CU of a young girl. Ramsey Clark.
Crime
Low, wide angle shot of people walking down a dark alley towards the camera. VO suggests that these African American men are members of the Black P Stone Nation Street Gang (aka Rangers). MS Detective Richard Peck talks about how the rangers are out to get him because he confronted some of the gang members. Intercut w/ CU of the gang members. Shots of the elevated train.
Afghan Scenes
Afghan Scenes. Scenes of rural third world poverty in Northern Afghanistan.
Crime
African American men in 1970s fashions (they sort of look like the streotypical 1970s pimp, long crushed velvet coats, hats w/ feathers) approach the courthouse. Gang grafitti (Soul's Country and War Lords) on a brick wall. Camera travels down the street of a depressed, run-down area (boarded windows, slum).
Crime
Night, looking down on the street. Officers on a stake out use a nightvision scope.
Crime
Car pulls into an industrial area. Driver leans out of the of the window w/ a dye gun. He tries to hit a person hits behind some metal barrels. Man is hit in the back with the dye pellet & he falls over. MS Ramsey Clark discussing police violence (brutality). Long line of police cars driving towards the camera.
Crime
Funeral car (hertz) driving through a cemetary. Police officers gathered around the grave of a fallen officer. Pan across a line of parked police cars. Repeat shot of gang memebr walking down an alley.
Quila Jenghi Prison
Quila Jenghi (Qila Jangi, Qali Jangi, Qala-i-Jangi) Prison near Mazar-e Sharif in Northern Afghanistan. This prison was the site of a fierce rebellion of Al Qaeda prisoners against their Northern Alliance guards, during which CIA agent Mike Spann was killed & American Taliban John Walker Lindh was captured.
Afghan Shepherd and flock
MS Afghan sheepherder (wearing ethnic turban) and son (wearing ushanka) attending to flock of sheep near sunset in a barren flatland desert, seemingly cold & endless. Dancing ewes. Saddled horse & donkey. Bleating sheep. MS Very young ewe braying. TLS Sun setting in near distance.50017