Trumbo Page #3
Actual black & white documentary footage of a waving WINSTON
CHURCHILL, grimly addressing an assembly:
WINSTON CHURCHILL (ON SCREEN)
Nobody knows what Soviet Russia
intends to do. An Iron Curtain has
descended across the continent.
The newsreel CUTS TO a cartoon map of Europe and Asia as an
animated red Iron Curtain drops, enclosing Soviet Russia.
NEWSREEL NARRATOR
The front line in a new kind of
war. A Cold War!
SHOTS of Russian military might: ARMIES march, FIGHTERS
launch, TANKS roll.
NEWSREEL NARRATOR (CONT’D)
The enemy --Communists!
BACK TO the cartoon map as the Iron Curtain BECOMES a series
of red tentacles --
NEWSREEL NARRATOR (CONT’D)
Their goal -- world domination!
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED:
-- and those tentacles slither across Europe and Asia,
heading for the United States.
REVERSE TO REVEAL - THE MOVIE AUDIENCE
MEN in ties, WOMEN in dresses, KIDS in their Sunday best.
And among them WE FIND Dalton Trumbo with his family:
daughter NIKI, 8, son CHRIS, 6, Cleo, and in her lap, their
youngest, MITZI, 2, all munching and sipping movie treats,
watching -
THE NEWSREEL:
As it CUTS TO A SHOT OF the Hollywood sign -
NEWSREEL NARRATOR (CONT’D)
Dateline:
Hollywood. The officesof former film starlet, now top
columnist, Hedda Hopper.
-- then DISSOLVES TO A SHOT of a newspaper column under the
aerodynamically lettered byline, HEDDA HOPPER’S HOLLYWOOD.
Next to the text, Hedda Hopper. As she begins to speak from
inside her column:
HEDDA HOPPER (ON SCREEN)
(to camera)
Greetings from our film capital,
where all is sun and fun. Or is
it?
CUT TO A WIDE SHOT (ARCHIVAL) -- OF WELL-KNOWN MOVIE FOLK.
Grouped together a bit awkwardly in bright midday sun:
HEDDA HOPPER (V.O.) (CONT’D)
See the famous faces here? Danny
Kaye, Humphrey Bogart, his dishy
bride, Lauren Bacall, their good
friend, film director John Huston,
and many others...
CLOSE-UPS (ARCHIVAL) of these FAMOUS FACES, plus a few LESS
WELL-KNOWN.
HEDDA HOPPER (V.O.) (CONT’D)
...all of whom have declared
solidarity with film crews
picketing for higher wages. In
walk-outs that quickly turned
violent.
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED:
(2)NEW SHOTS (ARCHIVAL) - OF PEACEFUL STRIKES OUTSIDE FILM
STUDIOS that indeed turn violent: POLICE CLUB THE STRIKERS,
ATTACK DOGS MAUL, FIRE HOSES SPRAY -
HEDDA HOPPER (V.O.) (CONT’D)
Because these strikes were in fact
the work of dangerous radicals.
A NEW CLOSE-UP (TO BE SHOT) -- SOMEONE standing on an apple
box, addressing a peaceful line of studio PICKETERS:
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