[Movie Script]Inventing the Abbotts

INVENTING THE ABBOTTS

Screenplay by
Ken Hixon
From the Short Story by
Sue Miller
March 21, 1996 DRAFT
 FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY



                          INVENTING THE ABBOTTS


       FADE IN:


1EXT. ABBOTT HOME - STREET (HALEY, ILLINOIS) - DAY                 1

       (LATE SPRING, 1957)



OPENING CREDITS ROLL over a TENT MONTAGE -- ASSORTED

ANGLES of a group of men hard at work erecting a large

striped "big-top" style canvas tent, INCLUDING: The long

steel stakes being sledge-hammered into the lawn,

practiced hands rapidly rigging the lines, the tall

center poles being leveraged upright, the heavy rolled-up

sections of canvas being maneuvered into position, and

ENDING WITH the canvas being hoisted up the poles as the

tent assumes its full and finished form.
NEW ANGLE - TENT


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