Script for film intro
- 1. Heart Full of soul 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 called Curtis 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: “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 an 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 Curtis’s look has changed again to a more laid back look (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 passer-by. As passer by crosses camera Curtis 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 Curtis takes first steps on the Moon. American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon”. He is at the end of the street and turns to go into the last building on it; as he turns “Heart Full of Soul” appears to side of the screen in white writing. We hear chattering away within building.