Client: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Project: Series of training videos for new inspectors, usually young men in their 20s, explaining a new anti-pollution technology and its application in various industries.

"Method 18 Overview" (Excerpt)

SFX: CARTOONISH MUSIC. ANIMATION WILL BE INTERSPERSED WITH VIDEO FOOTAGE OF METHOD 18 PROCESS.

FADE UP FROM WHITE TO MASTER SHOT OF INDUSTRIAL STACKS IN BACKGROUND WITH BLUE SKY…WHITE PUFFS OF SMOKE EMITTING FROM STACKS. MUSIC UNDER.

TITLE SEQUENCE: AN OVERVIEW OF METHOD 18

PROFESSOR DEXTER, AN ANIMATED DOG WITH ATTITUDE, LOOSELY MODELED AFTER MR. PEABODY, WALKS INTO FRAME FROM LEFT. FACES CAMERA.

PROFESSOR DEXTER: Hello again. Professor Dexter here. Today Curtis and I are going to look at an overview of Method 18…from presurvey through analysis.

CURTIS SKATEBOARDS BY FROM R TO L, FACING STRAIGHT AHEAD AS IF A SHIP’S FIGUREHEAD…UNTIED SHOELACES AND OVERSIZED SHIRT FLAPPING IN THE BREEZE BEHIND HIM.

CURTIS IS LOOSELY MODELED AFTER HERMAN, BUT IS AN INSOUCIANT DISCIPLE. HE HAS A NEWSBOY BAG SLUNG OVER HIS SHOULDER AND TOSSES A PAPER WHICH LANDS AT PROFESSOR DEXTER’S FEET.

THE PROFESSOR LOOKS DOWN.

PROFESSOR: Ah, the news.

HE PICKS UP PAPER AND OPENS IT.

The newspaper is printed on a web press which creates organic gaseous emissions as it operates. A carbon bed absorber is used to absorb the organic pollutant emissions. Thus, we have an industrial stationery source of organic gaseous compound emissions. Hmmm.Curtis?

CURTIS SKATEBOARDS IN FROM L AND SCREECHES TO A QUICK HALT BY THE PROFESSOR. SCREECHES ARE INDICATED WITH SFX AND CARTOON PUFFS OF SMOKE FROM THE WHEELS.

CURTIS: Did you call me, Professor?

PROFESSOR: Yes, Curtis, I did. We are about to embark on the Method 18 Overview Adventure…we have an industrial source of organic gaseous emissions and we have the background we need to proceed.

PROFESSOR HOPS OF THE FRONT OF THE SKATEBOARD. DONS GOGGLES AND THROWS SCARF AROUND NECK AND OVER SHOULDER. VERY DASHING.

CURTIS: Check.

PROFESSOR: Check.

CURTIS: Check. Ready for take-off!

CURTIS PUSHES OFF AND THEY SPEED OFF R. MUSIC SWELL, THEN UNDER. CLOUDS FROM STACKS IN BACKGROUND BILLOW TO FORM BACKGROUND SLATE FOR VIDEO TITLE.

GFX: METHOD 18: AN OVERVIEW

ANNOUNCER: Be forewarned! Method 18 should not be attempted by persons unfamiliar with the performance characteristics of gas chromatography. Particular caution should be exercised in the area of safety concerning equipment and operation in potentially explosive atmospheres. In other words…

CURTIS and PROFESSOR pop their heads up at angle from lower right frame, facing camera.

CURTIS & PROFESSOR: Be cool!