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Producer?s Studio
Los Angeles 4, Calif.


SUBJECT: API projected film for 1961 ABUNDANT ENERGY.
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In this approach, LINKLETTER can be used with the kids
in 3 format, dr he can be used alone as host and
narrator in a DOCUMENTARY approach.

In the ?House Party" t?eatment, we'll Open with Linkletter
and a group of kids in a set, similar to his TV show. He?ll set
the kids and audience at ease with a round of questions, asking
the kids where they were born, what kind of work their dads do, etc.
He ears about hobbies one kid likes baseball, another football,
etc. Then, he asks how much do you know about your country?

Art decides to hold a contest. He?ll name a city, and the
kids will try to guess what that city is famous for?

Art mentions Molina, Illinois.? One kid says ?Molasses!?
Another answers ?beerlf Art gives them a-hint, with a stock shot
of a combine harvester at work in a wheat field. Art will then
go into the history of the combine harvester, telling how it was
invented, and by whom, and how greatly it has contributed to our
modern abundance of food. (During a portion of this sequence, and
in all the ?city? sequences that follow, we intend to strive for_
artistic effect. Holding narration to a minimum, we?ll use beautiful
photography and a SOUND TRACK to tell
the message without words.) 

After scenes of farm implimants at work, we?ll go inside one
of the huge factories and Show how the impliments are mave. OVER
these shots,.Art will explain how one man on a combine harvester can

do more work than a hundred men using the old-time hand mehhods.

Next, Art shows a shot of "PittsburO."s What is it famous
for? The Baseball fan exclaims ?-?Piratesl" (In scripting, we
will develope the fun with this kid, whose whole life is baseball;-
andswith_therother?kidsr) One boy knows the correct answer 
steel. We will go into speotacular shots in a steel plant always
showing the huge machinery and how it is powered. (In these shots,
we expect to also show ?America at Play," emphasizing that low?cost
abundant i:j:;3energy makes this if??i??sleisure possible. There
are obvious opportunities for comparisons with other systems,
either shown, or told on narration.)

In the steel plants, we will show shots of Open hearth
furnaces. Art will explain that these furnaces are just ?big ovens,"
to the wvens used by the boy?s mothers. These ovens
get a lot hotter, of course a but they?re heated by the same source
of power natural gas. (In this way and in;each of the city,
sequences, we propose to show that none of these industries could
exist on th ir present scale without the contributions of
petroleum. 'We will emphasize the place of oilZin the operations,
lubrication, tempering, etc. This can best be done with photography,
rather than by narration. The message will get acrosslj'

art next says, ?Detroit?" The kids the answer to
that one ?Auto!? or "Carsl?;? After a beat, the baseball fan
will hesitantly offer We go inside a couple of
auto factories again showing the vast machinery and great power.

Art mentions "Los Angeles," and the kids reply "movies,"

and ?freeways," and ?missiles and airplanes." That?s the answer

art wants. 'We can then go into several plants and show the huge

 

e,uinment and great power used in building a: ?Mr planes and missiles.

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Art would says, ?Brooklyn, New York?? The kids would give

"?nale. 

Art says Easy rewall right

answers like ?hats? ?shoes? ~"ships.'

 We then go into a ship
yard and see the great energy necessary to build these craft,
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frOm pleasure boats and subs to the great carriers, and Art will 

tell what these ships mean to the country.

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Art mentions Wilmington, Delaware, and plastics, chemicals,

paints and cellophane. ?CellOphane" strikes a responsiVe chord.
in the kids. Here?s something they know about, it wraps candy,
etc., plastics mean toys.

we could carry" on with CHICAGO, CLEVELAND, was YORK,
SAN FRANCISCO, HOUSTEN, ETC.

Returning to the ?Rouge Party? set, Art would ask what
all these plants have in common. The kids answer ?workers, smoke
stacks, Presidents, buildings, etc.," but one comes up with "power."

art takes that answer and says that scientists have a
broader word for power ??it?s ?energy.? 'Ee would go on,
explaining that American has the most highly developed industry in
the world, because we have the largest supply of abundant low?cost
energy. We have the highest standard of living in the world
and it is directly related to our energy development. He continues
that man?s progress is largely the history and discovery of new
lenergy sources that the greatest strides in developing better
energy sources have taken place in societies where relative freedom
was enjoyed by the majority. 

Art leaves the kids and turns to GAMERA, addressing the
pictpre audience. He continues The system of slavery is directly

elated to energy needs and, for thousands of years, man was little.

more than a chemical?energy machine, bound to the soil, and devoted
to the benefit of a tiny ruling minority. The material well?being
of any nation depends upon the amount of mechanical energy it can

produce over and above the output of men and animals.


In the United States today, oil'and gas provide nearly three-
quarters of our'total energy needs and by 1980, nearly twice as much
oil and gas will be needed to meet demand. (Over this sequence, we

will show footage of the oil industry, and also PLAYING BACK on some

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of the petroleum uses we?ve already shown.)

This startling demand has it price in terms of depleting
resources and the energy industries are faced with the problems of
finding enough oil and gas to meet demand. (Shots of a worn?out
field, and exploration crews searching for oil in inaccessible
locals deserts, Alaska, etc.)

All the easy oil has been found.

Competition, freedom and innovation have spurred energy
development in the world and have made oil and gas the'world?s most
important energy sources. Continuation of these things, to spur
-eXploration and to encourage new ideas and technology, is necessary
both for the material progress we expect, and for the victory over
world Communism. (Re?cap of ff spectacular shots showing America
at Work, and the place of the oil industry in American progress.)

Rim Film ends on a note of hOpe and confidence in the
future ?Remember, we already HAVE what other systems are STILL
TRYING TO This is due to the AMERICAN FREE ECONOMY SYSTEM,
which we some times take too much for granted. This system has
a great past, it has a magnificent future it is the ONLY SYSTEM
in the world today that successfully combines ECONOMIC 
freedom. It will always continue to serve us well, because faith
in our system is faith in ourselves.?

THE END