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Cyndy the Cybrarian
Scene: Interior high school hallway…students are rushing about, checking inside their lockers. We are walking past the activity toward double doors with a sign above that says LIBRARY. A teenage boy’s hand with appropriate beads and leather bracelet on his wrist comes into view from the right and pushes open the door and we continue inside. We approach a desk with a sign that says REFERENCE. Behind the desk is an attractive redhead twenty-something with long pigtails, lots of makeup, wearing a midriff-baring skin-tight red leather mini-skirt outfit. She could be a rock groupie. She’s sort of half leaning out of her chair, chewing gum, twirling a pigtail.
(Cut to Medium Shot of young man approaching the desk. He stops.)
YOUNG MAN
“Uh, I need to write a project on energy.”
(Cut to Cyndy as she sits up in her chair.)
CYNDY
“Well, you know you could do something on the national power grid and why it needs to be upgraded before we’re all in the dark for days. Or maybe steam energy, the power of the industrial revolution…the power of the first transcontinental railroad and the great steamships. Or atomic power…the difference between fission and fusion…atomic half-lives…or the enormous, secret effort of the Manhattan Project, Fatman and Little Boy, Trinity, Einstein and Oppenheimer.”
(Cyndy now slides behind her keyboard and is staring at the screen as she types furiously and continues to speak non-stop.)
CYNDY
“Solar power! Did you know it takes eight seconds for the light, the energy, of the sun to travel the 93 million miles to Earth? Fire, that’s energy. Food energy! Wind! Waves!"
(She stops typing, turns to the young man and slightly raises an eyebrow, sits up straight and throws out her chest a bit in excellent sitting posture. She continues in a lower voice, speaking more slowly, more conspiratorially)
CYNDY
"Or you could do a few pages on how String Theory may soon resolve the differences between Quantum Mechanics and the General Theory of Relativity and become the one true Theory of Everything!"
(Her eyes widen a bit as she awaits his reply and we…
Cut to other scenes in the library as other librarians help students. {One librarian is older but dresses in goth garb, the other is in hip-hop urbanwear with lots of the bling-bling.} The first locates a book for one student and the other leans toward a computer monitor while a student points to it, smiling.)
ANNOUNCER
(Voice-over) Librarians are skilled at finding information wherever it may be…and they really, REALLY, want to help YOU!
(Cut to Cyndy looking into the mirror inside the bathroom of a modest home, taking off the layers of makeup. She’s dressed comfortably and respectably. Her leather outfit lies on the bathroom chair next to the counter full of lipsticks, rouge and powder. From a new angle now we see the bathroom door and a man wearing a dress shirt and loosened tie walks into the room carrying a toddler in his arms.)
HUSBAND
"Hi, honey. How was work today?"
(Cyndy turns toward him and shifts onto one hip.)
CYNDY
"You know I love my job…but sometimes I wish it wasn’t so hard to get their attention!"
(Cut to a three-shot and Cyndy reaches for the toddler and nuzzles him. Everyone smiles and hugs. Camera pulls out to include the leather outfit on the chair.)
Superimpose “Honor Thy Librarian”
ANNOUNCER
Voice-over: "Honor thy Librarian, because…"
(Add superimposed ‘You can’t tell a book by its cover!’)
ANNOUNCER
"You can’t tell a book by its cover!"
(Add Superimposed ‘A message from the American Library Association and your library.’)
Copyright © 2004 Jack McCracken. All Rights Reserved.
Cyndy the Cybrarian
Scene: Interior high school hallway…students are rushing about, checking inside their lockers. We are walking past the activity toward double doors with a sign above that says LIBRARY. A teenage boy’s hand with appropriate beads and leather bracelet on his wrist comes into view from the right and pushes open the door and we continue inside. We approach a desk with a sign that says REFERENCE. Behind the desk is an attractive redhead twenty-something with long pigtails, lots of makeup, wearing a midriff-baring skin-tight red leather mini-skirt outfit. She could be a rock groupie. She’s sort of half leaning out of her chair, chewing gum, twirling a pigtail.
(Cut to Medium Shot of young man approaching the desk. He stops.)
YOUNG MAN
“Uh, I need to write a project on energy.”
(Cut to Cyndy as she sits up in her chair.)
CYNDY
“Well, you know you could do something on the national power grid and why it needs to be upgraded before we’re all in the dark for days. Or maybe steam energy, the power of the industrial revolution…the power of the first transcontinental railroad and the great steamships. Or atomic power…the difference between fission and fusion…atomic half-lives…or the enormous, secret effort of the Manhattan Project, Fatman and Little Boy, Trinity, Einstein and Oppenheimer.”
(Cyndy now slides behind her keyboard and is staring at the screen as she types furiously and continues to speak non-stop.)
CYNDY
“Solar power! Did you know it takes eight seconds for the light, the energy, of the sun to travel the 93 million miles to Earth? Fire, that’s energy. Food energy! Wind! Waves!"
(She stops typing, turns to the young man and slightly raises an eyebrow, sits up straight and throws out her chest a bit in excellent sitting posture. She continues in a lower voice, speaking more slowly, more conspiratorially)
CYNDY
"Or you could do a few pages on how String Theory may soon resolve the differences between Quantum Mechanics and the General Theory of Relativity and become the one true Theory of Everything!"
(Her eyes widen a bit as she awaits his reply and we…
Cut to other scenes in the library as other librarians help students. {One librarian is older but dresses in goth garb, the other is in hip-hop urbanwear with lots of the bling-bling.} The first locates a book for one student and the other leans toward a computer monitor while a student points to it, smiling.)
ANNOUNCER
(Voice-over) Librarians are skilled at finding information wherever it may be…and they really, REALLY, want to help YOU!
(Cut to Cyndy looking into the mirror inside the bathroom of a modest home, taking off the layers of makeup. She’s dressed comfortably and respectably. Her leather outfit lies on the bathroom chair next to the counter full of lipsticks, rouge and powder. From a new angle now we see the bathroom door and a man wearing a dress shirt and loosened tie walks into the room carrying a toddler in his arms.)
HUSBAND
"Hi, honey. How was work today?"
(Cyndy turns toward him and shifts onto one hip.)
CYNDY
"You know I love my job…but sometimes I wish it wasn’t so hard to get their attention!"
(Cut to a three-shot and Cyndy reaches for the toddler and nuzzles him. Everyone smiles and hugs. Camera pulls out to include the leather outfit on the chair.)
Superimpose “Honor Thy Librarian”
ANNOUNCER
Voice-over: "Honor thy Librarian, because…"
(Add superimposed ‘You can’t tell a book by its cover!’)
ANNOUNCER
"You can’t tell a book by its cover!"
(Add Superimposed ‘A message from the American Library Association and your library.’)
Copyright © 2004 Jack McCracken. All Rights Reserved.
posted by Mr.Jack @ 2:18 AM
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