Film explores the possibility of using fusion to replace our consumption of fossil fuels.
Light moving across a grid. Traveling shot, looking up at electric poles. Light bulb burning out.
DO NOT USE: H-bomb exploding.
Electric towers. Airplanes moving across the tarmac. MS Ralph E. Lapp sitting in an airport, talking to the camera. LS Rows of housing. Cars & trucks driving down a highway. Animation of satellite in space.
Interior of a Princeton's Plasma Physics Lab. CU of buttons. Pan across lab. MS of Dr. Furth talks to camera, explaining difference between fission & fusion. CU of water running from a faucet. Graphics of atoms.
Drawing, design of a fusion reactor. Dr. Furth talking to camera. More designs of potential reactors.
CU of hands flipping the pages of a magazine. It stops of a page w/ a design of a potential future reactor. Dr. Furth talking to camera. Pan across a dirty factory, filling the air w/ smoke (pollution). A experimental car. A sign on the side reads "clean air car." Car driving along the road. Ralph E. Lapp talking to the camera.
Dr. Furth talking to camera. Cars & trucks driving along a highway. A long dark corridor, zoom in on a golf cart w/ "TWA" on the front. Ralph E. Lapp talking to the camera. Traveling shot, aerial, looking down on a highway crowded w/ cars (traffic jam). CU of a hand plugging a cord into an electric outlet. CU of fingers pushing buttons. CU of hands pressing a switch. CU of small red lights.
Pan across a control room, lots of panels & blinking lights. Dr. Furth talking to camera. Dr. Furth walking through the lab, looking at different pieces of equipment. Graphic showing the behavior of atoms. Graphic of how one of the machines in the lab works.
Pan across an electrical generator. Dr. Furth talking to camera. Shots inside a steel foundry (factory). Everything is covered w/ a red glow coming from the huge furnaces. Ralph E. Lapp talking to the camera.
CU of a large lamp, the coil begins to glow. Dr. Furth talking to camera. Several shots of generic, high rise apartment buildings. Blurred focus, focus pulls in on a very busy highway, crowded w/ cars (traffic). Looking up at electric tower. Zoom in on top of tower.