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INT. BALLROOM - NIGHT

Twenty-five dancing couples, fifty guests, ten servants,

full orchestra.

As the music slows a little, we see a Masquerade Ball in

progress. A crowded room of dancers is executing the slow

portion of a dance fashionable in the early 1820's.

EXT. STREET OUTSIDE SALIERI'S HOUSE - NIGHT

As the fast music returns, we see Old Salieri being carried

out of his house on a stretcher by two attendants, and placed

in a horse-drawn wagon under the supervision of a middle-

aged doctor in a tall hat. This is DOCTOR GULDEN. He gets in

beside his patient. The driver whips up the horse, and the

wagon dashes off through the still-falling snow.

MONTAGE:

EXT. FOUR STREETS OF VIENNA AND

INT. THE WAGON - NIGHT

The wagon is galloping through the snowy streets of the city.

Inside the conveyance we see Old Salieri wrapped in blankets,

half-conscious, being held by the hospital attendants. Doctor

Gulden stares at him grimly. The wagon arrives outside the

General Hospital of Vienna.

CUT TO:

INT. A HOSPITAL CORRIDOR - LATE AFTERNOON

A wide, white-washed corridor. Doctor Gulden is walking down

it with a priest, a man of about forty, concerned, but

somewhat self-important. This is Father VOGLER, Chaplain at

the hospital. In the corridor as they walk, we note several

patients -- some of them visibly disturbed mentally. All

patients wear white linen smocks. Doctor Gulden wears a dark

frock-coat; Vogler, a cassock.

DOCTOR GULDEN:

He's going to live. It's much harder

to cut your throat than most people

imagine.

They stop outside a door.

DOCTOR GULDEN:

Here we are. Do you wish me to come

in with you?

VOGLER:

No, Doctor. Thank you.

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