BILL MELENDEZ PRODUCTIONS:
DOZENS OF PEANUTS CARTOON CHARACTERS (Charlie Brown), WEARING HELMETS, LEAVE STARTING GATE IN BICYCLE RACE. COME TOWARDS CAMERA LEAVING CLOUD OF DUST AS THEY PASS. CROWD OF CHARACTERS IN STANDS CHEER.

LAYOUT ARTIST EDWARD BROWN, TAKES STORY BOARD
DRAWS STAGE WHERE ACTION TAKES PLACE. THIS IS
GIVEN TO ANIMATOR. ANIMATOR DRAWS CHARACTER. HE
LOOKS INTO MIRROR, MAKES SURPRISED FACE THEN DRAWS
EXPRESSION ON CHARACTER.

BEFORE USING COLOR, MELENDEZ, ANIMATORS WATCH SCREEN AS PENCIL TEST DRAWINGS BECOME ANIMATED. CU ANIMATED FIGURE OF CHARACTER PLAYING CARDS. CU EACH DRAWING IS TRACED WITH INK AND PAINTED. FEMALE ARTIST COLORS THE FIGURES ON CELLOPHANE. CU ARTIST BRUSHES BEING DIPPED INTO JARS OF COLORS.

ZOO ZOOLOGISTS:
ANN MOODY SCHMIDT, YOUNG WOMAN WITH MASTERS DEGREE
IN ZOOLOGY, WALKS ALONG WATCHING CHILDREN WITH
PARENTS, FEED GIRAFFE IN ZOO. CU HUGE FACE OF
GIRAFFE WITH EXTREMELY LONG TONGUE, TAKING MORSELS
FROM CHILDREN'S EXTENDED HANDS. SCHMIDT HAS BEEN
VETERINARY TECHNICIAN AT WASHINGTON PARK ZOO,
PORTLAND, OREGON, FOR PAST THREE YEARS.

LIONESS SITS ON ROCK LEDGE LOOKING AT AUDIENCE.
ANNE AND ZOO KEEPER WATCH, DISCUSS LIONS' HEALTH,
DIET. CU FACE SHOT OF ANNE IN LAB AS SHE STUDIES
DIETARY NEEDS OF ANIMALS.

ANNE WATCHES AS BABY HIPPO WITH FOOT INFECTION,
IS NUDGED OUT OF WOOD CRATE, INTO TANK OF WATER.
CU THE HIPPO CLUMSILY TUMBLES HEAD FIRST INTO
TANK. CU FACE POPS OUT FROM WATER.

MONKEY STANDS BY BUTTONS IN CAGE, CHALLENGING
ANNE TO PLAY GAME WITH HIM. ANNE PLACES DIME IN
MACHINE OUTSIDE CAGE, ALLOWING HER TO PLAY GAME
WITH MONKEY. CHILDREN GATHER OUTSIDE CAGE, PLAY
GAME WITH MONKEY INSIDE. TOTE BOARD SHOWS WHO WINS

CU ANNE SPEAKS ABOUT WORKING FOR PRESERVATION OF
ENDANGERED SPECIES. CU ANNE PEERS THROUGH
MICROSCOPE IN LAB.

SUN IS BARELY VISIBLE THROUGH SMOKE. CU FACE SHOT
OF FOREST RANGER AS HE LOOKS THROUGH SIGHTING
DEVICE, FROM HIGH ABOVE FOREST, IN OBSERVATION
TOWER. RANGER TOWER RISES HIGH ABOVE FOREST.
AERIAL VIEW OF TOWER AMID FOREST.

AERIAL SMOKE RISES FROM SMALL FIRE STARTING IN
FOREST BELOW. CU FACE SHOT OF FEMALE SPOTTER
CALLING IN THE ALERT. CU FEMALE DISPATCHER CALLS IN
ALERT ON RADIO. CU MARKS IT ON MAP.

HELICOPTER CARRYING WATER BUCKET ON CABLES FLIES
OVER FIRE DROPS EIGHTEEN LITERS OF WATER DIRECTLY
OVER FIRE. AS SEEN FROM GROUND. BULLDOZER KNOCKS
DOWN TREES TO FORM A CLEARING TO STARVE FIRE. HUGE
TREE IS TOPPLED BY BULLDOZER. FIREMAN USES TORCH
TO START BACKFIRE.

FACES OF CAMPFIRE GIRLS LISTENING TO FIREMAN AS HE
SHOWS THEM HOW FIREMEN GETS DOWN IF PARACHUTE GETS
HUNG UP IN TREE. HE TEACHES THEM THEIR FOREST
RESPONSIBILITIES.

INNOVATION CENTER:
JIM ANDERSON, ENGINEER, CONTRACTOR, INVENTOR,
WALKS OUT OF OFFICE WITH DOG, WALKS SHORT DISTANCE
TO HIS HUGE WAREHOUSE, SHOP.

FACE SHOT OF JIM, BLACK ASSOCIATE, OTHERS AS THEY
WATCH PANEL BEING ASSEMBLED IN SHOP.

MONTAGE LARGE TAPE REELS, PANEL BOARD, PRINTOUT,
OF COMPUTER, CIRCA 1978, CHURNS OUT STATISTICS. CU
JIM RECEIVES, READS, PRINT OUT. MONTAGE WORKERS
ASSEMBLE PANELS MADE FROM PLYWOOD SCRAPS, ASSEMBLE
THEM WITH POWER STAPLE GUN.

CU DOCTOR GERALD UDELL, DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION
CENTER, COMMENTS ABOUT JIM'S PROJECT. CU JIM AND
DOCTOR UDELL LOOK OVER JIM'S BLUEPRINTS.

FINISHED HOUSE. JIM ANDERSON, HANDS ON HIPS, LEANS
BACK, ADMIRES HOUSE, SMILES.

CU MEN FROM DIVISION OF WILD LIFE FILL PLASTIC
BAGS WITH WATER, ICE THEN POUR NET FULL OF
JUMPING FINGERLINGS, READY TO GO OUT INTO WORLD,
INTO BAGS WITH SUPPLY OF PURE OXYGEN, TIE THEM
SECURELY FOR TRIP TO INLAND STREAMS.

CLIFF PULLS LARGE PLASTIC BAG FROM SADDLE POURS
TINY FISH INTO MOUNTAIN STREAM. THIS TASK IS ONE
OF THE PLEASANT ASPECTS OF HIS PROFESSION. CLIFF
RIDES AWAY PULLING OTHER HORSE ON LEASH, PASSING
FIELDS OF DIFFERENT EXOTIC FLOWERS, WHICH HE TALKS
ABOUT AS HE RIDES.

PLANE FLIES LOW ALONG HUGE CLIFFS, SWOOPS
DOWN, DROPS FISH INTO LAKE IN AREA NOT ACCESSIBLE
BY HORSE.

PAN OF LAKE AS IT FEEDS STREAM WHICH SNAKES DOWN
TO COLORADO RIVER. PAN TO PLANE FLYING BY IN
DISTANCE AND MOUNTAIN PEAKS BEYOND.