Video
LIGHT BLUE WASH
AROUND DOME...
SLIDES, VIDEO
AND 16MM FILM ON SCREEN AREA:
SPACE SHUTTLE
MOMENTS BEFORE LAUNCH...
35MM FILM OF ENGINE
IGNITION
...AND LIFT-OFF
SPACE SHUTTLE FADES
TO NIGHT STARS.
ZEISS
PROJECTOR:
GEMINI, APOLLO, SPACE
SHUTTLE IMAGES. (SLIDES
OVER STARS)
EARLIEST ATTEMPTS
TO FLY--IMAGES FROM
MYTH AND HISTORY...
AVIATION HEROS...
TEST PILOTS...
ASTRONAUTS...
LUNAR LANDING IMAGES:WE ARE ON THE MOON...
MONTAGE:
QUICK-CUT IMAGES OF
ENTIRE HISTORY OF
FLIGHT...IN REVERSE.
GRAPHIC IMAGES:
EARLY ILL-FATED
DESIGNS FOR PERSONAL
FLYING MACHINES
DA VINCI SKETCHES
OLD FILM: BOTCHED ATTEMPTS
KITTY HAWK: DESERTED, DESOLATE
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Audio
WALK-IN: SOUNDS OF HOUSTON MISSION-CONTROL AND
ASTRONAUT TALK-BACK LIGHTLY INTERSPERSED
AT SHOW TIME:
THEATER SLOWLY DIMS...
MISSION-CONTROL CONVERSATION PICKS UP...
SFX:
SIMULATION OF ACTUAL LAUNCH
ENVIRONMENT
NOISE:
FINAL 10-SECOND COUNT-DOWN AND
LIFT-OFF SEQUENCE...ROARING OF ENGINES...AND WE ARE IN ORBIT
ROARING SUBSIDES
NARRATOR
(VOICE-OVER)
Into space...after centuries of dreaming.
Until a mere 200 years ago,we were bound
to the earth.... Human fliers existed only inlegends and myths.
Now we fly higher, faster,farther than any bird.
In one brief historical moment, we have transcended the most basic of human limitations--and with spectacular success.
(POWERFUL NOISE OF CONCORDE TAKE-OFF, PEAKING AT END OF NARRATOR'S LAST PHRASE)
We are airborne...
We are star-bound.
SOUND MONTAGE:
BACKWARDS THROUGH HISTORY--ROAR OF ROCKET ENGINES AND JET AIRCRAFT...PROPELLER-DRIVEN PLANES, MODERN, THEN
MORE AND MORE ANTIQUATED
REELING BACKWARDS IN TIME,
THE REVERSE PARADE OF SOUNDS
BECOMES SPARSER, MORE
PRIMITIVE-SOUNDING...
FINAL SOUND-ELEMENT:
A SINGLE-ENGINE PIPER CUB
FADES TO
BREEZE AND BIRDS...
NARRATOR (VO):
How to fly...? Harness
Birds to your chariot?
Attach wings to your shoulders?
For thousands of years, like Leonardo da Vinci, we had looked to nature's wings for the secret.
But the age of flight began in a different way...
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