Rear Window Page #3

THE CAMERA PANS to a second photograph of a picket line at

an aircraft plant strike. Strikers, non-strikers and police

are embroiled in a bitter and confused riot.

Clubs, fists and truncheons swing, blood flows, faces twist

with emotion and fallen victims struggle to regain their

feet. The picture represents no distant, cautions photographic

observation, but rather an intimate report, so immediate and

real that the viewer has the nervous feeling the fight

surrounds him and he had best defend himself. The same

signature, "L. B. Jefferies," is in the corner.

THE CAMERA PANS TO another framed picture, this one a

beautiful and awesome shot of an atomic explosion at

Frenchman's Flat, Nevada. It is the cul-de-sac of violence.

The picture taken at a distant observation point, shows some

spectators in the foreground watching the explosion through

binoculars.

THE CAMERA MOVES ON to a shelf containing a number of cameras,

photographic film, etc. It then PAN ACROSS a large viewer on

which is resting a negative of a woman's head.

From this, THE CAMERA MOVES ON to a magazine cover, and

although we do not see the name of the magazine, we can see

the head on the cover is the positive of the negative we

have just passed.

THE CAMERA FINALLY COMES TO REST ON a pile of magazines --

perhaps a hundred or so. They are all of the same publication.

LAP DISSOLVE TO:

INT. GUNNISON'S OFFICE - DAY - CLOSE UP

The screen is filled with the top of a desk. In addition to

the usual telephones, blotting pad, etc., the most prominent

feature is the number of glossy photo prints, and even larger-

sized mat prints. Some of them have slips pasted over with

descriptions. The center of the desk is occupied by a large

layout of photographs on one magazine page. Behind this we

hear the murmur of two voices of men who can be vaguely seen

beyond the desk.

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