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Film Leader Countdown

Show opens to CU of older man riding a bicycle. From the "Leisure Time" studio, several TVs on the wall, comedian Bob Newhart at his desk on the phone asking the person on the other end to command the bike rider to drive slower.

At Issue show graphics overlay television studio control panels.

Newhart turns toward the TVs on the wall above him and speaks to Mr. Penny, the elderly man riding a bicycle.

Dr. Richard Belman, a professor of medicine, math and engineering from the University of Southern California speaking into camera describes society as in a state of transition and points out that automation is forcing more leisure time on the working man. He also states leisure time has been a problem in America for the last 20 years which explains why the entertainment business is one of the biggest and most flourishing in the nation.

Harvey Swados at typewriter, critic of the industrial scene and author of "The Myth of the Happy Worker".

INSERT INTERVIEW - AUTHOR PAUL GOODMAN

B&W historic footage from post civil war era, late 1800's early 1900's. Scenes of well to do folk, well dressed, enjoying life - socializing, dancing. strolling holding parasols, riding in open carriages, driving new cars. Newhart narrates unseen, they had money for hotels, horses, hunting, playing tennis and golf.

Newsreel footage of the launching of J.P. Morgan's steam yacht, Corsair the 4th.

Playboy Bunny serving drinks and lighting men's cigarettes at the Playboy Club Los Angeles, circa 1960's.

Two attractive '60's women, Judy Wedland and Liz Jerome, driving along in a convertible in Florida, passing numerous hotels and motels and pulling into motel parking lot.

Young people at the beach, '60's women in two piece bathing suits hanging out at the shore, guys and gals, sunbathers. Shot from behind, Wedland and Jerome walking up stairs, the camera focusing on their butts. Newhart narrating unseen.

Judy Wedland speaking on hand piece of rotary dial phone in hotel room, making arrangements to attend a jam session. Female friend, Liz Jerome brushing her cute '60's style hairdo.

Girls at beauty salon. Hair being styled by male beautician. Liz in curlers under hair dryer.

CU from waist down - fringy go-go skirt swinging back and forth, fishnet stockings. Live band at nightclub, young people dancing '60's style. Go-go dancer on stage.

Pleasure boat on the water in Newport Beach. Two guys driving boat headed toward shoreline. Boats docked in harbor.

Back in the "Leisure Room" studio with Newhart. WS of Newhart sitting in front of large clocks on the wall and several TV monitors, he talks at camera.

Sign on wall reads: Don't Buy an Avalon Hill Game Unless you are Above Average!

Family, including young children and adults in living room watching black and white television cartoons on old fashioned console.

Close up young boy licking his lips, dad close by leaning over him. Sounds from the television show they're watching can be heard.

Producers, Sheldon Leonard and Danny Thomas smoking a cigar in their Hollywood office discussing their new television series, "My Fifteen Blocks".

Hand holding a cigar over a vintage metal ashtray.

Bob Newhart at his desk in the Leisure Time studio, answers the ringing phone on his desk.

Back to Mr. Penny, the shirtless bicycle rider from earlier in the reel. Bicycling down the road he talks about his plans for retirement - eventually settling in at Art Linkletter's Sierra Dawn Retirement Estates in Hemet, California.

Male (electrical workers) having a casual meeting and talking candidly about how they would use their leisure time to benefit themselves and what they would do with their time.

Row houses along the road in the Alleghany Mountain region of West Virginia.

WS landscape view of residential neighborhood in the Alleghany mountains of West Virginia, homes dot the landscape of low lying mountains.

Approaching a giant hollowed steel globe, POV from moving vehicle. Narrator, Bob Newhart, unseen, states this is entrance to "Leisure World" in Maryland, one of the several in the United States, considered an "adult community" and specifically, not a "retirement community".

Salesman leading a tour of elderly folk around The Leisure World facility in Maryland. They tour the activity rooms with painting easels, ceramic classroom with potter's wheels, built in swimming pool. They tour the dwellings "manor houses" with patios, elevators, etc.

In the studio with Bob Newhart, seated at his desk in front of four clocks overhead, he reiterates the elderly man's statement, "what would i do with my time?".

Unseen, Newhart, asks Karate student who was just flipped to the ground what he's doing there. Student responds "I'm studying Judo" ..."a good form of exercise"...

Newhart, unseen, interrupts a middle aged female student during her lesson and asks why she's there. Student replies, "well, ...my husband and I just kinda got tired of watching tv and wanted to do something together, we were both athletic and kinda let it slip a little while..."

Newhart, unseen, introduces Dave DeWitt, "race car driver". Pan down on DeWitt's hand revealing a remote control. WS of a large indoor remote controlled race track called "the Indianapolis Speedway" in Scarsdale, New York.

Cute young Asian child smiling, excited, jumping for joy.

Tilt down on two drawers of toy race cars.

Pan in from fur coats hanging on a rack to a man at sewing machine, moving around to close shot of the face of same man, Ellis Chasens, a fur worker in Washington DC. CU his nimble fingers pushing thin strip of fabric through the machine.

Cut to Chasins' taking practicing with orchestra conductor, Carl Rooks(sp?)

Pan applauding audience, 1960's.

Labor leader, Harry Van Arsdale standing on roof top in Queens. Aerial Pan over the Electchester Apartment Development in Queens, New York. Van Arsdale talks with unseen interview about shortening the hours employees work for employers.

Talking head, Mr. Al Somer, retired electrical worker states, "Do anything that you think that would make you happy, but don't sit around the house, it's the worst thing to do. Get out, meet people, see other people that are retired...".

Bob Newhart at his desk in the studio, summing up the program is interrupted by ringing telephone. He speaks with anonymous viewer. Newhart wraps up the program by saying, "it would help to realize our old idea of a work society isn't so useful anymore, doing something after work is just as important today as work itself..." "...we have to learn to live as well as to make a living, then we won't have trouble filling time, well have trouble finding it..."

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