
The China Syndrome
- PG
- Year:
- 1979
- 122 min
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- Five, four, three, two, one.
- Come on, let's hustle up.
Camera two is clear.
- The red hair was a good idea.
- What did she say?
- She'll do what we tell her.
- Forty seconds.
- Studio B, this is remote.
We come out tight.
Studio B, this is Kimberly.
How soon do we go live?
Hey, hey, fellas!
Anybody listening to me?
- Is Mac there?
- Mac here. What is it?
We need five minutes before we go on.
How about after the commercial?
Not a chance, Kimberly.
We're coming to you in 40 seconds.
- No! We don't have a cameraman.
- Where's George?
He's taking a leak.
You can't have a 2 and a half minute spot
on a static shot.
Better tell Pete to stretch
because remote's gonna be late.
Stretch, Pete. Slow it down.
Mac, can you start on a tight shot
and pull back to a wide?
Just get George back.
George?
We've got less than a minute.
We're about to go on the air.
Thanks.
You all ready? Everybody ready?
Break a leg!
Do I look okay?
The wind is from the south-southwest
at 5 miles an hour.
Now we switch to Kimberly Wells
for a live mini-cam report.
What did you do on
someone's birthday?
Send a card or flowers?
Boring, huh?
Here's something more imaginative.
What the hell is this?
What the hell is this?
This is one part of a new group
taking L.A. By storm.
"Live Wires", singing telegrams.
There's one for every occasion.
If it's your parents' anniversary,
you could send them an "operagram".
Or maybe your message
can't be expressed in words.
- That's the stuff I want to see.
- Look at this!
Get in tight on the navel.
Oh, mercy!
That is a "bellygram."
- That's the kind of stuff I like.
- Our ratings have gone up.
- Our research said she'd do well.
Very nice show, Kimberly.
Mac here. Can you hear me?
- Change of schedule.
- Again?
- We're going to Ventana.
- Great!
- Be there at 1:
30.- What about Richard and Hector?
- They'll pick you up.
- Right, okay.
Can I have a hit? Thanks.
I don't smoke.
It's 12:
40 in Los Angeles......temperature is 68 degrees
at the Civic Center.
Here's a new one, on the charts
for the first time this week.
They're here, Mr. Gibson.
Hi, Miss Wells.
Bill Gibson, Public Relations.
- Ventana special, take one.
- Okay, Kimberly, any time.
I'm Kimberly Wells, and I'm here
at the Ventana nuclear power plant.
The dome is called the "containment"
Today in "Energy in California,"
...the transformation of matter
into energy, that experts tell us...
...may be our best shot
at energy selfish sufficient...
- What happened?
- She said "selfish sufficiency."
- "Self-sufficiency."
- Let's keep going.
This simulated uranium is the exact
size of those used in the fuel rods.
This pellet contains more energy
than six carloads of coal.
Twenty million pellets are inside
the reactor vessel, here, at the "core."
Around the core is water,
which is used as a coolant.
Inside here is another set of rods
called the "control rods."
They control the nuclear reaction.
What happens is this:
When the core is activated,
the control rods are lifted out.
The nuclear fuel then sets up a
chain reaction, producing heat.
This boils the water,
that turns the turbine...
...that turns the generator,
that produces electricity.
- That's it.
- That's great.
Let's get a reaction shot
of Kimberly.
- You made it seem simple.
- It is. I'll get your hard hats.
- Can you take us inside?
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