Reel

Hemingway Biography

DO NOT USE Opening stills of ERNEST HEMINGWAY.

DO NOT USE MS former NBC newscaster CHET HUNTLEY introducing program.

DO NOT USE Still montage of Hemingway, from eldest age to teenage years.

DO NOT USE Stills of Hemingway family, mother, father, and siblings. Stills of Hemingway and his son (Gregory?) duck-hunting in Michigan. Still of older Hemingway, bearded and shirtless and posing in a mirror. Stills of Hemingway's Oak Brook high school, yearbook pictures, and excerpts from school newspaper.

DO NOT USE World War One. Details of painting depicting the sinking of the Lusitania. America enters the war, still montage: Woodrow Wilson tipping his hat, doughboys marching in New York, and Uncle Sam "I Want You" recruitment poster. CU's Hemingway war correspondence. Stills American Field Service (Red Cross) employees marching. Stills of Parisian buildings damaged by Big Bertha shelling. Stills of soldiers fighting at frontlines or resting at camp.

World War One. Motion footage of nighttime shelling, the sky being lit briefly by munitions fire; cut to wide MS's ambulance arriving at Italian hospital, employees rushing to aid. Dissolve to warfare montage: MS soldiers running in trench. MS machine gun nest, gunner firing. LS's explosions as soldiers rush across field. MS dead soldier in trench, bug running across his face. MS Red Cross lifting wounded soldier on stretcher. LS's line of ambulances driving. MS's nurses and wounded soldiers at hospital.

DO NOT USE Still of Hemingway in uniform.

DO NOT USE Stills of Hemingway writing Farwell To Arms in longhand at desk.

DO NOT USE Huntley in studio, narrating.

DO NOT USE Still of Hemingway in uniform during WWI.

LS's unnamed, secluded Michigan river. MS's man spin-fishing in mid-stream, catching fish, fly finshing. LS's flock of ducks in flight over field; MS's duck flying, landing in marsh.

DO NOT USE Stills of Hemingway and first wife ELIZABETH HADLEY RICHARDSON.

Paris, 1920s TLS Arc de Triomphe. TLS Colonne de Vendome, cars and horse-drawn carriages passing before it. MS street vendor hocking flowers. Traveling shot of Parisian boulevard at night, cars winding along it, news ticker in BG. MS folks dancing to hammy hot jazz in Parisian nightclub. CU empty outdoor cafe table, cut to CU waiter opening champagne bottle. Panning wide LS outskirts of Paris. Tight LS's street life. Panning LS roofs, Eiffel Tower in BG. Montage of Parisian bohemian life: CU's & MS's artsy folks sitting outside, drinking and talking and smoking and writing at Cafe La Rotonde. MS cafe sign. CU's writer F. SCOTT FITZGERALD and wife ZELDA. CU filmmaker-writer-playwright-artist JEAN COCTEAU smiling. C/A portrait drawing of his. CU man feeding soup to his small snake. CU woman in black mugging for camera, making faces and such. Traveling shot of crowded outdoor cafe in Paris. MS shirtless PABLO PICASSO working on a sculpture in an apartment studio. MS's writer JAMES JOYCE on street. (the Lost Generation)

DO NOT USE Stills of writer James Joyce, GERTURDE STEIN, intercut with stills of young ERNEST HEMINGWAY.

MS's Gertrude Stein putting on glasses, reading to camera (no sound).

Grainy shaky MS's of F. SCOTT FITZGERALD sitting at table on patio, talking to male friend while wife ZELDA sits nearby.

DO NOT USE Stills of Fitzgerald. Still of young, mustachioed Hemingway.

CU BENITO MUSSOLINI (still with hair), talking quite agitatedly to crowd. MS's uniformed Il Duce walking through Italian streets with fellow fascists. MS's Mussolini in formal attire, attending various publicity events. MS's & LS's of uniformed Mussolini inspecting Italian troops.

MS interview with QUEEN MARIE OF ROMANIA (no sound).

DO NOT USE Still photos

Excellent montage of Berlin nightlife, gaily dressed folks dancing and drinking and singing and carousing. CU man's fingers, with small shoes over tips, dancing on table. MS's dancers in polka dot dresses dancing on stage. Process shot of spiraling drink glasses.

DO NOT USE Stills of Hemingway, seemingly on permanent vacation.

DO NOT USE MS Huntley in studio, narrating.