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School Without Walls - PT2
MCU man sitting at table reading/studying home study course book. CU turning pages of book. CU man taking a long, hard drag from a cigarette as he studies. MS man studying in the basement, his wife enters with a cup coffee and gestures of encouragement.
Capitol Journal - Rating Rock and Roll
Host Hodding Carter introduces guests Tipper Gore, Susan Baker, and Frank Zappa, who argues against labeling music. Carter asks Gore why she has chosen this narrow issue "when the problem may be a very large channel of real pornography, real violence, real obscenity out in the country at large." Gore agrees there are larger issues, but "it's important to start somewhere". Violent and sexually explicit rock music is reaching younger children without any warning. Carter asks Baker what she would like to do about that. Baker is asking that the music industry provide more information to consumer about their product. Warning labels that identify sexually explicit or violent material, or material that glorifies drug use or alcohol. She would also like to see lyrics be made available before purchase. Carter asks Zappa what is objectionable about that. Zappa replies that he would okay with lyrics being made available, but no ratings. Who decides ratings? Control should be left to parents.
Capitol Journal - Rating Rock and Roll
Susan Baker and Frank Zappa joke back and forth with one another before Zappa criticizes the presentation of this issue, turning government into show business. Baker pushes back on that comment, saying it's the way America works. Zappa thinks if this really is a serious issue, then get to the core of it. Tipper Gore and Zappa engage in a back and forth argument using a Motley Crue album/album cover, Zappa stating that clearly the album is not meant for children, and Gore arguing that parents care, but they can't be tuned in to everything children are doing. Baker interjects, stating that Zappa has four children, and has been in the music industry, and asks whether he is alarmed by what he sees. Zappa says he is not because his children laugh when they see it. There are albums that clearly not for children. Gore shows Zappa a W.A.S.P. album, noting it's sales success. Zappa again looks at the album cover and says it is not marketed for little Johnny.
Capitol Journal - Rating Rock and Roll
Frank Zappa notes that since W.A.S.P. signed their new record he doubts there will be a buzz saw on the next cover. Susan Baker: "Super." Zappa disagrees: "...you have done something to an artist. Look, forget about whether you like it. Think of it - what if it were. What if we were all crazy and that really was art. It starts off talking about lyrics, then it goes to covers, then it's to videos, now it's to live concerts. What s next, religion?" Host Hodding Carter steps in and points out that's a fair question and that there are people who would go further than labeling. Tipper Gore believes that the principles of freedom still work alongside with that they're asking for. This pertains only to record and broadcast materials. Carter: "You're worried you can't hold it there?" Zappa goes on to explain his worry about this becoming a domino effect once a precedent is set at labeling. Carter interrupts to say they're out of time, and thanks them.
School Without Walls - PT3
School Without Walls - PT3 A promotional film for the National Home Study Course system of education (adult vocational home school courses). It features a mix of program success stories along with establishing footage of early 1970's lifestyles, occupations & technology.
School Without Walls - PT3
MSs young attractive couple (husband, wife) sitting in their living room talking to the camera about home study courses.
School Without Walls - PT3
MS pan computer data analysis room in the testing department of the NHSC, good shot for bulky computer systems of the early 1970s. CUs old school printer w/ perforated tear-off paper printing and folding upon itself as it comes out of the machine.
School Without Walls - PT3
MSs attractive couple (husband, wife) sitting in their living room talking to the camera about home study courses. Various shots of couple at the dining room table meeting w/ man from the NHSC. CUs signing the contract document.
School Without Walls - PT3
MS man seated at kitchen table using a knife to open a sealed package, his home study materials have arrived in the mail. MCU man in living room talking to camera about the home study program. MS man studying his course lessons at table in the basement. MSs attractive couple (husband, wife) sitting in their living room talking to the camera about home study courses. MS man seated at table in the basement with open book in front of him, he rubs his face & eyes with a clear expression of frustration, he isn't understanding the reading material, he grabs his pack of cigarettes & abandons his studies.
School Without Walls - PT3
MCUs older man seated at desk looking over old school perforated computer print-outs, analyzing test papers. MCU man in living room talking to camera about the home study program. MCU older man seated at desk looking over computer print-outs, analyzing test papers. MCU middle aged man talking on telephone. MCU 30-something man (home study student) in basement talking on telephone. MCU man in living room talking to camera about the home study program.
School Without Walls - PT3
MCU older man (teacher) in suit, tie and glasses seated at desk reading a sheet of paper & jotting down notes. MSs young attractive couple (husband, wife) sitting in their living room talking to the camera about home study courses. MCU/MS two men shaking hands. MS young attractive couple (husband, wife ) sitting in their living room talking to the camera about home study courses.
School Without Walls - PT3
MS young attractive couple in the basement as man explains to his wife how a copper heating coil works. CUs man tightening bolts & screws. MCUs young couple showing gestures of love & support.
School Without Walls - PT3
DO NOT USE: End credits.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 1
DO NOT USE: Opening credits.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 1
GVs large cloud formations. LS landscape w/ low hanging clouds in the sky. Elevated LS pan evergreen forest. GV clouds w/ special effect flash of lightening superimposed. GVs forest fire ravaging trees. CU conifer needles as raindrops fall. CU evergreen sapling growing on forest floor. GVs fluffy white clouds. LS flat landscape, zoom to single tree in clearing, special effect flash of lightening superimposed.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 1
High angle wide LS of a hydro-electric dam. Low angle MS of power station transformer. Various establishing shots of utility poles, power lines & transformers. GV suburban home w/utility pole in backyard, zoom to MS brick facade where the electric wire enters the house. GV pan of row of utility poles strung with power lines. MS birds resting on power line, pan out to see top of utility pole with pole-mount transformer.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 1
Low angle looking up at kite flying in the sky, pan down to LS of field where boy & girl are operating the string. MCU boy looking up w/squinted eye while pulling on kite string. CU hands holding kite string. Low angle of kite flying. Rear MS kids flying kite, zoom to utility pole with pole-mount transformer. CU hands holding kite string. CU hand tugging on taught kite string. Narration builds tension suggesting a catastrophic death when the metal in the kite string hits the power lines.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 1
MS pan as man in his late 30's, dressed in summer attire, enters the backyard of his suburban home carrying a paint pale & metal extension ladder, man leans his ladder against an aluminum window awning (home improvement, domestic chores). MS profile as man raises the ladder. Low angle MS looking up at electrical wire strung along the roof of the house, the top of the ladder is being raised dangerously close to the power supply. CU hand raising ladder. Low angle MS top of ladder hitting the live power line, sparks fly. CU man's hand jolting off the ladder from the power surge.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 1
MS outside in factory yard as man walks, guiding metal cage being moved by hook crane. MCU crane operator in cab. Low angle MS as crane neck gets dangerously close to power line. MS man on the ground guiding the metal cage being moved. CU as the crane touches the live wires, sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 1
LS farmer hauling irrigation pipes w/his yellow tractor. MS famer lifting long metal irrigation pipe from trailer. LS farmer tilting the irrigation pipe to stand vertically. CU as pipe comes in contact with power line, sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 1
GV oil drilling rig set up directly under power lines, pan & zoom to MS of conductor, flash.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 1
GV man on the roof of his house installing a TV antenna. MS antenna touching power lines, sparks fly. GV boy running through field flying a kite, zoom in as kite gets caught in tree. GV boy climbing tree. Low angle MS branches of oak tree butting up to power lines.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
Reaching For The Lightning - PT 2 An educational safety film dealing with the dangers of high voltage electricity at home and at the workplace. Contained are several staged scenarios in which electricity can cause accidental death. Though the narration insinuates death by electricity (electrocution), causalities are not seen but represented by superimposed special effects of sparks flying or bright flashes of light.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
GV/MCU teenage boy playing/spinning with model airplane, holding onto control string. GV model airplane buzzing around from POV of spinning boy. GV model airplane buzzing around, crash into power lines, flash.