Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
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.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
MS sailboats docked in harbor. Low angle view of power lines, pan to GV boats docked in harbor. MS two men raising mast of small sailboat, flash. GV farmer walking toward camera carrying a metal ladder, nice rural scene w/ white barn buildings in BG. CU tip of ladder hitting power line, sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
GV orange grove w/ worker moving ladder to harvest the fruit crop. MS top of ladder being rested in tree top, man climbs the ladder. Low angle MS looking up at man picking fruit. CU orange fruit, flash. GV young shirtless man driving tractor toward camera, towing farm equipment behind, red barn seen in BG. CU medal farm equipment touching power lines, sparks fly. (agriculture, farming)
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
MS utility pole with pole-mount transformer, pan out to GV of blond teenage girl in a bikini using net to skim residential swimming pool. MS skimmer being used to clean leaves from pool. MS end of aluminum pool skimmer getting dangerously close to power lines. MCU teen girl cleaning pool. CU skimmer pool touching power line, sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
MS man (arborist) climbing a tree. GV man in tree, starting his gas powered chain saw, zoom to CU as saw blade cuts into branch & strikes a power line, sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
Chicago, Michigan Ave: MS construction worker in hard hat climbing ladder. MCU profile crane operator. MS construction worker climbing ladder to repair building marquee. MS worker welding building marquee. CU hands of crane operator. CU power line, pan out to GV of crane operator moving marquee frame, view of neighboring business w/ great sign "Benjamin Joe's Old Cathay Cantonese Restaurant". Low angle MS crane arm moving dangerously close to power lines, historic Water Tower & John Hancock Center building seen in BG, crane touches line & sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
Low angle MS looking up at utility pole strung with power lines. GV sky with heavy cloud cover, special effect lightning bolt is simulated.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
DO NOT USE: End credits