1. Script for film intro
Steps can be heard on the pavement, screen fades into seeing a pair feet walking along, and the
camera pans up to show a young man walking along looking like a Teddy boy. He slicks his hair and
looks in a passing window to check how he looks, as he does all this the crackling of a radio can be
heard and “This is ACC news; Russia has beat USA to the space race, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
congratulates Major Gargain on his achievement of orbiting the Earth. President Kennedy
congratulates Soviets on their achievement”. There camera then turns slowly around the young man
to see he has changed his look and looks like a mod his wearing a coat which he covers himself more
with and gets a cigarette out of his pockets and strikes a match. The radio has a urgent sounding
jingle and says ”At 12:30 on the 22nd November 1963 US President was fatally shot in Dealy Palace,
Dallas, Texas. The details of this fatality are still being kept confidential until further investigation has
been made”. The young man then stops at a road and a car passes as the young man’s look has
changed again to a more laid back (jeans and shirt) “Now to the situation in Vietnam; U.S. aid to
South Vietnam is increased by $150 million to bring the total for the year to $700 million. No
developments have been made with the North, as protests in America hit all time high”, he bobs his
head like he has a tune in his head and nods to a passerby. As passerby crosses camera young man
now looks like a hippie, he walks along in a dazed and out of it manner, he smiles at all he goes past
people, the radio crackles again “ 20th
July 1969 Man takes first steps on the Moon. American Neil
Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon”. The man is at the end of the street and
turns to go into the last building on it, we hears chattering away wihin.