Playscript for my proposed do ask do tell documentary

Playscript for “Do Ask Do Tell” movie and slide show

Note: Because of a Microsoft software glitch (having to do with table entries in Word converted to HTML), the hyperlinks starting about half way thru the file were one or two files "behind" and there are extraneous links (using the "span" subcommand), from about 7/11 to 7.124. I repaired this on 7/24/2006 by deleting extraneous href links.

7/25 Most links should work; I could have missed a few.

The purpose of this sequence of pictures and clips is to suggest what an indie documentary film like “Do Ask Do Tell” could “look” like. Of course, some of the images are not of the best quality and would be re-taken if used. This is what I can do on a “zero budget.” With $$$ it could be much more polished. (Visit my movie reviews at http://www.doaskdotell.com/movies ) Here is a discussion of a practical way to organize this material on a DVD or VD. For information about the DVD that I have made now, see filmstatus.

Most of the video clips are unedited. The intention is to sketch out content and what it would look like. With sufficient resources, scenes would be reshot professionally in high definition or some suitable technology. I have several scripts to develop this material, and not all of them are shown publicly (on this site).

The content of this file corresponds more or less to a film with a PG-13 rating. There are no sexually explicit pictures or images, but some of the audio discussion is about mature subjects, suitable essentially in high school. Here, I mention my blog: http://billboushka.blogspot.com http://billretires.blogspot.com http://billsinternetsafety.blogspot.com/

Here are some terms:

Applicability date: The approximate date in history that the image refers to. The entries will be in approximate chronological sequence by this date (but not always!) – enough to make sense!

Content date: The time that the actual image content was originally taken or created

Photograph date: The date that the image was photographed

MPG – movie; JPG – still; R – rephotographed The MPG’s have not been edited, although some of them will be done soon.

A ‘*’ after MPG means higher definition (a larger file but shorter time); generally these are files from MN.

Musical signature and credit frame for DADT film (sketch) Also, here is my home-taken headshot.

Or a thumbnail:

(Yes, I am 62 and the sunlight makes my face look like a mask from a horror movie, or at least a prop for a slasher film screenwriting contest.)

Boyhood through High School

Applic. Date	Content Date	Photo Date	Movie/Still	Location	Name	Comments
1910, 1940	1910, 1940	1910	JPG,R	IA, OH	Iowa; Ohio, Oberlin coffee cup 2, 3	Father’s boyhood photos, south of Des Moines. I visited are in Nov. 1997; Milking can from Ohio farm on mother’s side
1945	1945	2004	JPG	VA	Adding machine; Information technology, 1943; family apartment, 1948 phone technology Operations research, 1970; 1950s tv; What it’s like to be an angel; Graphing calculator; Laptop and lithium battery records, 2, 45rpm certification A modern (Dell) personal computer; A 1950s workshop; bronze art; Zenith radio; Masonry (father) Masonic Temple, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 King James Bible, 2 sewing machine (1940); home movies books1, 2 Globe1 2 3 4 Computers1, 2, networksol, usps cfl, cfl2 lama foundation book star cards poinsetta; 2, 3 fruitart; bookcase; star2; flw; ssa Windmill map praxis mapva xmas surveying	This was a home “computer” from the 1940s. next to another (Army) chess trophy. Family lived in Buckingham in Arlington until 1949 (then heavily segregated; now "re-segregated" by immigration and home-ownership economics; some of area being turned into condos) My theory is that angels (not the Anaheim baseball kind) live forever, do what they want except make babies; We all know that “spam” is a pun (remember the movie “Sophie’s Choice”); The function on the TI 84 graphing calculator is y = 1/x. Think of “spam” volume as represented by x, then take the derivative of its natural logarithm and you get 1/x, what is graphed. That is, passive internet advertising is the “derivative” of spam. Could that matter in court? Ha ha, mathematics matters in real life. I don’t have a slide rule (remember “slide rule accuracy” on physics and chemistry tests in the pre-calculator age); look at this site: http://www.sliderules.clara.net/ . Since the mid 1990s, of course, we have lived with an additional dimension, as google can make anyone a celebrity. Note the change in technology from the phonograph record to the CD The workshop is mostly 50s technology, with a few modern items. I used it for science fair projects. The old Washington Senators lost many a road Sunday doubleheader on this 40s era radio. 1949 Bible "Black Book", open to words in red on Parable of the Talents ; photos of (or near) the George Washington Masonic Memorial on between routes 7 and 236 in Alexandria. Then, a bookish existence (note the chess books) compact fluorescent lightbulbs. Note World Book Encyclopedia 1950 edition used to have terrific, garish topographical elevation maps of states and provinces. These are no longer available.
1943/07/10	1943	2004	JPG	DC	Birth papers, babushka, boy portraits, genealogy ; greeting; Christmas plate; Lord's prayer; rug; decor ice1, 2	Note that the words “complete” and “white”; The “Babushka” doll (ready for voodoo. Maybe?)
1944/01/20	1944	2004	JPG	VA	Baby formula	Orlosky was an old-fashioned pediatrician practicing in the (then) segregated Buckingham community in Arlington, VA
1961	1961	1961	JPG,R	VA	Youth pictures	One is a picture of me as a senior in high school, age 17
1949	1949	2004	JPG	VA	Pumpkins; Woodlawn; Swanson; Old Arlington Hospital (now VMC); old2 5th Grade art of Egypt: 1, 2, 3; Kenmore 2 3 4 , TVtower, 2	“Pumpkins are orange”—so I was scolded in a private kindergarten when I colored them as red, which I liked better as a kid; I attended Woodlawn Elementary (grades 1-6) in Arlington VA 1949-1955; 1^st and 2^nd grades were in the front windowed rooms. Today the building is a hospice. Swanson Junior High School, which I attended 1955-1958 is today Swanson Middle School. I remember those dreaded algebra tests and “classworks” (factoring, long division, word problems) on the second floor near the end of the building. Arlington Hospital had a two-story colonial architecture of a community hospital until the 1990s, when buyouts and corporate mergers led to all the new high rise construction in a heavily historic (with Civil War remnants) residential area of Arlington. (Ponder the high cost of health care!) The Health Dept is still a 40s building in the wartime style that the hospital had been known for; nearby is the Halls Hill Wall, whatever is left of it from the days of segregation a few decades ago. Kenmore Middle School has a new building (and a vacant field for the old one); had a neighborhood and Internet safety event 2/10/2008
1952	1952	1952	JPG,R	VA	A boy who plays piano; Voice of Music	This was a 1951 Kimball console piano in the living room; I was called “a boy who plays.” Crosshands was a big deal. I got my first stereo in fall 1962, a VM that tracked at 6 grams. I replaced the 78-stylus with a 1 mil stylus to preserve the mono records when tracking heavy, many of them badly worn in inner grooves (especially with piano) by an older RCA Victor “record player” where we used sapphire needles! How things have changed!
1955	1955	2004	JPG	VA	Music festival papers; Sherwood course	The “festivals” were concerts where piano students were graded (range “Superior” to “Fair”). I wish I had followed through like Everwood’s Ephram!
1959	1959	2004	JPG	VA	Piano sonata cover ; sonata3 music51, 52, 53, 54	Entered into a composition contest, a three movement sonata in d minor that at the time I thought emulated Rachmaninoff’s 3^rd Concerto
1956	1956	1956	JPG,R	DC, OH	Old and new stadiums; Chess and baseball; The new Nats in 2005; 2; new 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 36	Griffith Stadium, in NE Washington, home of the “old” Senators who left by 1961; My own idea of a new stadium (built with a playmate in Ohio); it is a little bit like old Cleveland Municipal Stadium; the chessboard has been in the father’s side of the family since about 1900; RFK stadium for the “new Nats” – “they” lost to the Reds that day, 5-3; The last 9 pictures are from Nationals Park on the Anacostia, Apri; 10, 2008, when the Nats lost their seventh in a row, 4-3.
2007/06/18	2007	2007	JPG	DC	stad1, 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 21 22 23 ivy1 2 3	Scenes near Nats new stadium on the Anacostia River. Nearby is the street where the Edge and Wet were razed for condos; the Velvet Nations club is also gone, presumably for a condo or office building; note where we often parked; all of this near Navy Yard Metro; note also Ivy Town, where clubs might have been relocated
2007	2007		MPG	DC	stad3	Construction of new Nats stadium
1956	1956	1956	JPG,R	VA,”CA”	Life in a model railroad	A concept that I use in my 2004 screenplay “Baltimore Is Missing”
2006	2006	2006	JPG	MD	B&O museum, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	B&O Museum in Baltimore; note the model railroad has a loop on two levels with two grades, with a model of the Bromo-Seltzer Building. Here Baltimore is not missing!
2003	2003	2003	MPG	MN	Another toy train
1955	1955	2004	JPG	VA,AK	Alaska1 Alaska2 Alaska3	A filmstrip (in “Cinerama”)—my cousin and I made “movies” in different formats and aspect ratios and even had a mock “academy awards”. Only a nitwit would make a film called “Color” in black and white (maybe Fellini would)
1956	2004	2004	JPG	VA	Backyard ancient ruins; crocuses; crocuses in snow Winter; Winter2; Winter3; Winter4; 61, 62 icestorm1, 2, 3 snow4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 frost Spring; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; ice11, 12 , 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 40s plane on a glacier; Play ruins; technicolor; Healing Garden, 2; Four Mile Run Garden, 2 rose1, 2, 3; flowers; 4; 101 102 103 104 105 106 sch; arl1 2 3 4 , 91, 92 93 94, 131, 182, 183 mapleblossom, 2 stones and gold ore goldenrod 2 3 4 cardinals Table tree, Moon; ch, p1, 2, 3; purple21, 22, 23 24 25, Thunderstorm	There used to be a hedge and a “baby play city” in the corner of the back yard. (Winter picture shows the new Virginia Hospital Center, then the “fox den”); spring shows azaleas in early May in Arlington; Virginia Hospital Center Healing Garden; "Snow4" and 5-9 is an example of very heavy wet snow ; Note the traffic red light camera "Big Brother"; Note Mt. Olivet Methodist Church, Bluemont Park in Arlington
2006	2006	2006	JPG	VA	Liberty garden, 2 b1 b2 b3 national guard, Wall-E, Starbucks	Small Liberty Garden near Ballston in Arlington. VA
1958	2004	2004	MPG	VA	Backyard baseball	We actually rigged softball so it was a game of 2 with reasonable scores in an enclosed back yard. We even had a “league”. My record was about 14-22. My worst loss was 17-1.
1958	2004	2004	MPG	VA	Home sweet home	Home team advantage (you get to bat last)
1958	2004	2004	MPG	VA	Rain on the snow; Rain on the snow on a toy train; Rain on the snow outdoors; vulnerable wet snow; Watch the snow melt; The Ice Storm; May followers in the same place ; When VA looks like MN; firstsnow 1 2	This boat was in the bathtub during adolescence. You guess the metaphor for this David-Lynch-like clip. (the last two clips are near apartments in Minneapolis, as my relocation is shown below)
2004	2004	2004	JPG	VA	beat the drug test; beat the hair test	And then guess the significance of the drug test objects.
1957	2004	2004	JPG	VA	Term paper1; Term paper2; Map; draw; term paper notes A bookish life?	History term paper in Middle School (“Junior High School”), 8^th Grade, Home Front during World War II—note the discussions of civilian sacrifices; Paper on “World of Work” (chemistry); Relief map of VA (based on World Book); drawing of state flag; We were taught to do research with manual index cards in the 1950s with specific formats; even at GWU I had to write an “annotated bibliography” prior to a freshman English term paper
1960	2004	2004	JPG	VA	Little Grandfather clock, Cast iron; SHS invitation letter (1960)	This object was behind me as I gave my Science Honor Society initiation speech on Dec. 9, 1960 (about silicon). Next to it is a woodworking project from shop (“industrial arts”, 7^th grade) in Middle School, with a Chess trophy from Fort Eustis VA (see Army service below). Also see the cast iron project from the shop class. No one made the Superman “S”. Roll up your sleeves!
1961	1961	2004	JPG,R	VA	W-L High School, 1961; diploma; new W-L 2, later 3, 4, 5 21, 22, 23 HBWoodlawn, 2 DC Library; Library of Congress; complab	Washington-Lee High School (where I graduated valedictorian 1961) on the day of the Kennedy Blizzard. I had four semester exams the day before. I did research for term papers at the DC Library (at the end of the #2 bus line from Arlington then) and Library of Congress (in Junior English, the paper was on the role of women in James Fenimore Cooper’s novels). Pictures 21-23 of W-L were taken Thanksgiving Day, 2007. The students move in to the new $83 million facility in Arlington in Jan. 2008.
1961	1961	2004	JPG	VA	W-L papers W-L yearbook "Blue and Gray" 2, with calculus lesson	Various high school papers
1960	1960	1960	JPG	VA	Chemistry book report; Chemistry test	Note what book reports and footnotes looked like in the days before word processors; Here is a typical high school chem. test then
2004	2004	2004	MPG	VA	W-L today; Library	W-L High School today; Arlington Library today
1955/12/25	2004	2004	JPG	DC, VA	First Baptist Church., 2 FBC history and books by Dr. Pruden; Fbc music letter Nearby Jewish Community Center; Nearby Foundry Methodist; Calvary Baptist downtown Clarendon Presbyterian, Arlington, 2; n1, 2 Falls Church Episcopal Mormon 1 2 3 4 5, 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , QWest; Glebe Market art, African American Metro Art, Natl Gal Capitals	The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington DC, (16^th and O Sts NW, less than 1 mile from the White House) church of presidents. This sanctuary opened on Christmas Day 1955. I was baptized there with my mother in January 1956. The Church is affiliated with both Baptist conventions, so it has tended to be politically moderate to liberal, although the members vary enormously. President Jimmy Carter taught Sunday School there in 1977, when I attended (the divorce parable). FBC members met in the Jewish Community Center, 3 blocks north, while the new sanctuary was being constructed in 1955; President Clinton attended both FBC and Foundry Methodist in 1993 during the debate on lifting the military gay ban.; Calvary Baptist is downtown and has a new steeple Qwest has building in Arlington but no cell phone service (instead Verizon); part of iPhone and network neutrality political and legal debate; The Mormon building is a stake in Arlington VA. Mormons do not choose which church to go to. Clarendon Presbyterian Church in Arlington is a liberal congregation which stopped performing marriage ceremonies in view of the Marshall-Newman amendment in VA. An interfaith group called Rumi Forum served Noah's Pudding there on Jan 20 2008. Mormon: local stake in Arlington; Temple in Kensington MD; indoor scenes in temple; note "Family Home Evening"
2008	2008	2008	JPG	DC	1, 2, 3, 4, 5 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46	Church of Scientology; HRC bookstore; other properties near Dupont Circle
2004	2004	2004	JPG	DC (VA)	17^th St, Conn Ave., St Matthew's Cathedral; near; amc; ccg; amc2; dp11; cath11; cath12; cath13; cath14; cath15; cath16; cath17; cath18; cath19; cath20; cath21; wreed1; 2; ncap; dcne1, 2 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 Washington Cathedral, 2, 3, Greek Orth. francis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	The Dupont Circle neighborhood near the First Baptist Church has undergone demographic change since the 1940s and 1950s. Neighborhood social change can present tremendous challenges to mainstream urban churches like FBC. See HRC building below, also. Note the old AMC Dupont Circle 5; (also the AMC Shirlington); CCG is building where I worked in 1988-89 for CCG-Lewin-ICF. ; Pictures 11-19 are around the Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in NE Washington DC; also Catholic University, where I took the ICCP test in 1992 and where I believe I took my first civil service test in 1963. Note also Pope John Paul Center, residence; battlefield along North Capitol St; Walter reed Hospital ; Washington Cathedral on Mt. St. Albans, view of City, Greek Orthodox cathedral nearby
2008	2008	2008	JPG	VA	11, 12, 13, 14	Falls Church VA: Fairview Park. Columbia Baptist Church, Old State Theater (now comedy, an important neighborhood movie house in the 50s); search also for "Episcopal" on this page
2006	1960	2006	JPG	VA	Wod1, 2, 4	The old Washington and Old Dominion ran through northern VA, and in the 1930s there was streetcar service from Rosslyn to other points (Bluemount); at Bluemont Park in Arlington
2007	2007	2007	JPG	VA	cemetery1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33,	Arlington Cemetery scenes with Lee Mansion, JFK memorial, "ask not what your country can do for you..."
2007	1950	1950	JPG	CA, AZ, MT, UT, WY, SD, WA	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Tetons, Yosemite, Bryce Canyon, Rainier, Rushmore, Kings Canyon, Grand Canyon, Bridelvail
2008	2008	2008	JPG	na	0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,	settings
2008	2008	2008	JPG	na	1, 2, 3, frig, doll, windpower, 2, agility, goodrich. metrotime sink; fdic1, 2, vet1, 2, hmmisc1, 2, 3, birds mocker senior apts yd1, 2, 3 chalk1, 2 ole1, 2, 3, 4, robin1, 2, 3, trees, wmpo 83, 84, 91, 92, 93 cloud104, f401 nat flw rosslyn arl schools, mclean1, 2, 3, oldcar, 2, 3, potbelly; sunset, 2, 3, 4,	Front Page, miscellaneous; goodrich relates to Iraq