THE SEMAPHORE VERSION OF 'WUTHERING HEIGHTS'/ 'JULIUS CAESAR' ON AN ALDIS LAMP
Voice Over: (T.G.)
And now
for the very first time on the silver screen comes the film from two books which
once shocked a generation. From Emily Brontė's 'Wuthering Heights' and from the
'International Guide to Semaphore Code'. Twentieth Century Vole presents 'The
Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights'.
Caption: 'THE
SEMAPHORE VERSION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS'
Film: appropriate
film music throughout. Heathcliffe (T.J.)
in close-up profile, his hair is
blowing in the wind, he looks intense. Cut to close-up Catherine (CC.)
also in
profile, with hair streaming in wind. As if they are looking into each other's
eyes. Pull out to reveal, on very long zoom, that they are each on the top of
separate small hills, in rolling countryside. Heathcliffe produces two semaphore
flags from behind him, and waves them.
Subtitle: 'OH!
CATHERINE'
Pan across to
Catherine who also produces two flags and waves.
Subtitle: 'OH!
HEATHCLIFFE'
Heathcliffe waves
flags again.
Subtitle: 'OH! OH!
CATHERINE'
With each cut they
are further and further away from each other.
Catherine waves
flags again.
Subtitle: 'OH! OH!
HEATHCLIFFE'
Cut to her husband
(E.I.) at front door of early Victorian manor house, looking stem. He waves two flags.
Subtitle:
'CATHERINE!'
Cut back to
Catherine on hilltop.
Subtitle: 'HARK! I
HEAR MY HUSBAND'
Cut to husband with
two enormous flags.
Subtitle:
'CATHERINE!'
Cut to intertor of
the early Victorian manor house. Close-up of a cradle. Suddenly two little
semaphore flags pop up from inside the cradle and wave.
Subtitle: 'WAAAAAGH!
WAAAAAAGH!'
Pull back to reveal
a nurse who walks over to cradle and waves flag briefly.
Subtitle: 'SSSH!'
The nurse points
across the room. Cut to shot of old man asleep in chair with head slumped
forward on his chest. He has two flags which he waves.
Subtitle: 'ZZZ . .
. ZZZ . . .'
Cut to front door
again. Exterior. Husband is waiting. Catherine comes up the path towards him. As
she approaches he flags.
Subtitle: 'YOU'VE
BEEN SEEING HEATHCLIFFE'
Catherine waves
frantically.
Subtitle: 'YES!
YES! I'VE BEEN SEEING HEATHCLIFFE, AND WHY NOT? HE'S THE ONLY MAN I EVER LOVED.
HE'S FINE. HE'S STRONG. HE'S ALL THE THINGS YOU'LL NEVER BE, AND WHAT'S MORE . .
.'
Stock film of a
Roman chariot race.
Caption: 'MONDAY
FOR 7 DAYS'
Voice Over: From
the pulsating pages of history, from the dark and furious days of Imperial Rome
we bring you a story that shattered the world! A tale so gripping that they said
it could not he filmed. A unique event in cinema history! Julius Caesar on an
Aldis lamp!
Superimposed Caption: 'JULIUS CAESAR ON AN ALDIS LAMP'
Close-up of Caesar
(G.C.) walking in Roman street. Soothsayer
(M.P.) pushes his way up to him, wild eyed and
produces Aldis lamp and starts flashing:
Subtitle: 'BEWARE
THE IDES OF MARCH'
Some steps at the
foot of a statue. Caesar is stabbed. As he falls he brings out a really big
Aldis lamp and flashes to the assassins around him.
Subtitle: 'ET TU
BRUTE'
A Western street.
Two cowboys facing each other with morse buzzers.
Voice Over: From
the makers of 'Gunfight at the OK Corral in Morse Code'.
Superimposed Caption: 'GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL IN MORSE CODE'
They buzz a bit
Subtitle: 'AAAAHHHI'
Cut to a Red Indian
making smoke signals.
Voice Over: And the
smoke-signal version of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'.
Superimposed Caption: 'AND THE SMOKE-SIGNAL VERSION OF GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES'