MSSING 9/10/2003 Sally Fuller wins Feature ayt Woodbine
Rolling light in contrast and imagery Army squadron aids dedication of Flint airport. There is a row of bi-planes and some army tents set up. Man making a speech maybe the mayor of Flint Michigan. A CU of a gray haired gentleman who said a few words to the public. Plane taxing down runway.
Ski jumping, some incredible jumps, one fella losing his left ski at end of run after jump. Skier losing control, wiping out (ouch).
Rolling light in contrast and imagery Men have whiskers and covered wagons at an anniversary of sorts. The spectators are lined up on the sides of the streets anticipating the start of the wagons of the Old West parade. The people who are taking part of this celebration are dressed in 1700's styles. CU of men with beards.
Man teaching his kids to turn with skis. Boy goes down slight slope, falls on his rear end
Titles
Happy Cliche family posing on couch, briefly breaking down into familial squabble before bursting into toothsome smiles, stereotypical middle-class middle American conservative Caucasian nuclear family consisting of mother and father, young son and daughter.
Husband and father, Mr. Cliche smiling, straightening tie, taking life insurance papers from suit jacket, glancing at expensive premium, assuming look of shock.
MS industrial chef wearing white chef's hat and half-apron dumping uncooked French fries into baskets of industrial deep fryer for comparison test. MS four frying baskets being lowered into frying oil at the beginning of this 8 day "maximum abuse" test. MS man placing disgusting wad of white solid shortening into left side of fryer. MCU Frymax liquid shortening being poured into right fryer. CU fries cooking, baskets being lifted and shook, then dumped back in. CU sign on fryer: 2 1/2 Days. MS fryers, left fryer bubbling yellow, the shortening having broken down. CU spinning counter: numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. MCU baskets in churning fryer, baskets being lifted out, golden fries shown to camera. MCU on-off switch of General Electric fryer. MCU disgusting pile of solid shortenening, sign reading "8 Days, 113 pounds" stuck at top. By comparison, Frymax produced only 38 pounds of fat (represented by a smaller mountain of fat with the sign on top). CU can of Frymax while VO explains its special Proctor and Gamble ingredient called "metsil." Diagram of how Metsil prevents fat-killing oxidation, retards fatty acid build-up.
MCU/CUs cans of Frymax arranged in pyramids and rows on food service shelves; "each can weighs slightly less than 10 lbs, so women have no trouble handling them." CU can of Frymax being opened on table-mounted can opener. MS/CUs woman pouring "creamy white" contents of Frymax cans into empty, clean kettle of deep fryer. CU baskets of uncooked fries being lowered into hot oil. MS older white man wearing white side cap and apron wheeling large container of solid shortening to deep fryer. Disgusting CUs man scooping out wad of solid shortening from container, packing wads around heating coils in fryer, shortening heating up, melting. CU can of Frymax being opened on electric can opener. VO explains how using Frymax is cost effective because it saves time & space; how this is much easier then the conventional way of scooping solid shortening into the fryer which is "a man's job" anyway, taking an extra "18 expensive minutes of labor!"
VO says Frymax actually tastes better too. MCU/CUs three heaping plates of fried onion rings, fried chicken, fried shrimp on blue table. CU cooked French fries falling onto pile. Great CU green-eyed white woman wearing far too much make-up happily eating a piece of fried fish. CUs heaping plates of golden fried onion rings, shrimp, chicken. CU can of Frymax liquid fat being poured out. Great MS dopey green-eyed woman with stiff hair-sprayed hair, chomping on a fried shrimp.
MCU female hair model with finished coif spinning in chair. MS hairstylist Jon Guenther working with female model, zoom in to CU model, Jon using comb to show triangular sections where the part moves across the crown; he combs hair, begins setting small rollers into hair, sweeping across hairline. High angle MS/CU Jon setting smaller and smaller hair rollers. CUs Jon setting rollers on side of model's head, towards face.
More shots of hairstylist Jon Guenther setting rollers into short blonde hair of model. Jon uses the twist-pull roller set method. Jon makes perfect pin-curl on back of model's head.
MS hairstylist Jon Guenther with model, the setting complete; zoom in to CU hair setting, Jon pointing to triangular part, forward sweep with comb. High angle MS of same. MS/CU Jon Guenther combing out model's hair, never losing the line of the hairstyle; side-swept look in front, back hair brushed forward.
CUs hairstylist Jon Guenther back-combing, teasing, molding & shaping the model's hair with comb. CUs Jon making finishing touches & flair teasing. MS Jon talking about adding two small hairpieces to the finished style.
MS/CUs hairstylist Jon Guenther showing swoops, sweeps, lines, of finsihed hairstyle minus hair extensions.
Colorful neon signs for restaurants and hotels, night. Guests entering piano bar.
Dining room, male African-American and Caucasian waiters in red dinner jackets circling tables, distributing menus, taking orders, attending to customers. Dinning guests.
Young white woman restaurant worker checking out her beehive hair in mirror
Opening credits.
DO NOT USE: Glitzy opening titles and stirring music.
Series of kaleidoscopic abstract color shapes flickering, moving, rotating (far-out, trippy). Series of watercolor backgrounds with animated lines traveling across screen, visually demonstrating line forms as: tense, sharp, exciting, smooth, flowing, lazy & languid.
Series of animated cells demonstrating form and color, done in a classic 1950s cartoon-modern graphic style (Populuxe).
DO NOT USE: Opening credits.