[Movie Script]Apartment, The

                     THE APARTMENT



by
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
                        THE APARTMENT



A DESK COMPUTER



A man's hand is punching out a series of figures on the

keyboard.
                         BUD (V.O.)

            On November first, 1959, the

population of New York City was

8,042,783.  if you laid all these

people end to end, figuring an

average height of five feet six and

a half inches, they would reach

from Times Square to the outskirts

of Karachi, Pakistan.  I know facts

like this because I work for an

insurance company --
THE INSURANCE BUILDING - A WET, FALL DAY



It's a big mother, covering a square block in lower

Manhattan, all glass and aluminum, jutting into the leaden

sky.
                         BUD (V.O.)


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