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Zounds!
Or Tales of the First Movie Friendly Megalopolis!
Episode 6 of the Alternative History of Smithville
BY: john daniels, jr.
For: Kayla Jo Williams (Looking pretty good for 74…shows.)
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john daniels, jr.
May 22, 2016
1:57 PM
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Film 1
Title: john daniels, jr., proprietor, local community theatre
SHOT 1: Fade in on john sleeping on the bench. He has a cigar in his mouth and a cowboy hat pulled down over his eyes.
SHOT 2: Mayor Emma Wroids is walking down Main St. toward the theatre. She is carrying a bucket.
SHOT 3: Wider angle of john on the bench. Mayor enters the frame and throws water on john.
SHOT 4: Medium close of john, sitting on the bench, drenched. The cigar is still in his mouth.
SHOT 5: Close up Mayor with wide eyed smile.
TITLE: Mayor Emma Wroids!
SHOT 6: Medium close up Mayor.
MAYOR: Wake up! Plays are dead. The future of Smithville is the movies!
TITLE: Wake up! Plays are dead. The future of Smithville is the movies!
SHOT 7: Medium long shot of john sitting on the bench facing forward and Mayor standing at the end of the bench in profile leaning toward john. John turns his head toward Mayor.
SHOT 8: POV shot john to Mayor close up. Mayor stares.
SHOT 9: Medium close up john. John turns his head from Mayor to camera. He takes the cigar from his mouth. He takes a deep breath and exhales.
Hard cut to TITLE.
TITLE: Zounds!
TITLE: Tales of the First Movie Friendly Megalopolis!
Fade to black.
LIGHTS: Slow fade downstage.
LYTLE KYD (Jon-Michael) stands center reading the newspaper. He is dressed in a colorful suit and bow tie. NOAH VALUE (Steve) enters DSL door. NOAH wears white shirt suspenders and a black visor. He carries a coffee cup.
NOAH: Good morning Kyd.
KYD: Very funny. Heard that one all my life. Good morning Noah.
They shake hands.
NOAH: Lytle Kyd, you’ve been gone for some time.
KYD: Nice to be back. Things are simple here.
NOAH: That’s good?
KYD: Oh, yeah. I’m standing right on Main St. reading this Noah Value paper.
NOAH: And I’ve heard that one too. The name of the paper is The Smithville Sentinel.
KYD: I read that Zordora is coming here to make a movie.
NOAH: Another one of those Emma Wroids’ projects.
MAYOR: (voice) Mayor Emma Wroids!
MAYOR enters front and crosses in between KYD and NOAH.
KYD: Good morning, Mayor.
NOAH: Hi.
MAYOR: Lytle Kyd, it is so good to have you back. Congratulations on your new candy store.
NOAH: The Lytle Kyd Candy Store?
KYD: Yep. I got a slogan.
MAYOR: Oh, let me hear it.
KYD: “When you want a confection make sure there’s a Kyd in the candy store.”
MAYOR thinks about it for a minute.
MAYOR: That’s nice, but I think you should mention Smithville.
NOAH: It’s in Smithville.
MAYOR: You are just like your paper, more editorial than news. Well, like they say, “It’s all in the name,” Noah Value.
MAYOR exits HALL.
NOAH: (calling after MAYOR) It’s called the Smithville Sentinel!
KYD: Nothing much has changed.
NOAH: Nothing much.
SKEETER: (voice) Ouch!
SKEETER enters HALL.
NOAH: What happened Skeeter?
SKEETER: That… Mayor just stuck me with a hat pen. (sees KYD) Hey, Kyd.
KYD: Sheriff Skeeter.
SKEETER: I’m not the sheriff anymore.
KYD: Who is the Sheriff?
SKEETER: There isn’t one.
NOAH: Mayor thinks it gives the town a bad image, not movie friendly.
KYD: (to SKEETER) What do you do now?
SKEETER: Drink.
KYD: Is that all?
SKEETER: No, I’m Chief of the Smithville Movie Making Authority.
KYD: Sounds official.
NOAH: Out of coffee. Got to go back to work.
SKEETER: See ya later Noah Value.
NOAH: Can’t you guys just call me Noah?
KYD/SKEETER: No.
NOAH exits DSL door.
KYD: So Chief, I read Zodora is going to be in the movie.
SKEETER: She’s a big star from France.
KYD: Who’s going to be the male co-star?
SKEETER: They haven’t announced one.
KYD: Maybe they’ll discover you.
SKEETER: You won’t catch me acting.
KYD pats SKEETER on the shoulder and exits one of the upstage doors.
SKEETER crosses to the bench UR and sits. He takes a flask from his pocket and looks at it.
It’s too early for this.
SKEETER puts the flask away and then takes another flask out of another pocket. He opens it and drinks.
That’s the one.