[Movie Script]Grand Hotel

                                       GRAND HOTEL


Written by
Bela Balazs
Based on the play "Menschen im Hotel"
By Vicki Baum
American version
By William A. Drake
                                                               SHOOTING DRAFT







                                         PROLOGUE



Berlin.
Season is March.
Action of the picture takes place in approximately 36 hours.
Picture commences at approximately 12:35 in the day.
Time: The Present.




               EXTERIOR REVOLVING DOOR



Show general natural action of people going in and people

coming out but in it is the definite inference of people

arriving and people leaving the big hotel.
MOVE INSIDE THROUGH THE REVOLVING DOOR -- very quickly. CAMERA

PAUSES ON THE THRESHOLD like a human being, seeing and

hearing.
               DISSOLVE OUT.


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