"Shirley" "VISIONS OF REALITY" "Saturday, August 28th 1931 probably never to return" "Havana." "The Cuban capital is still on guard 24 hours a day against the long expected rising in Havana itself which is never materialised" "London." "KarlNaumestnick 38 year old Austrian Schoolmaster of ?" "crossed the English Channel yesterday on a pair of water skis..." "Voila mademoiselle votre chambre." "Merci monsieur." "Bonne nuit." "Bonne nuit mademoiselle." "It's white" "At least at this French hotel we expect something a bit better." "I can't imagine in Paris." "Now I can't even imagine Greenvich Village." "Another week here." "Another week on the sea." "Then back home to New York." "Maybe the trip back across the ocean will help me get ?" "again." "Where is the program?" "S S De Gros." "Comme dame sur chaveaux." "De huit heures quarante-cinq à neuf heures quarante-cinq." "Au Grand Salon." "Concert sur la direction de M..." "Monsieur David violinist" "Vendredi 11 Septembre 1931" "Programme." "Marta." "Ouverture." "Flûte." "Romance en fa." "Tchaikovsky." "Dans ?" "Vienne du montoi" "?" "La navereux, Mesnier." "At ten p.m. in the Salon de thé, dancing." "How strange." "A dancing ?" "?" "dans ton ombre a la ferveur de la nuit." "Suivre te pas ton ombre à la fenetre." "Cette ombre a la fenetre c'est toi." "C'est ne pas un otre." "C'est toi." "N'ouvre pas cette fenetre." "?" "Sunday, August 28th 1932" "The Group Theatre which has been rehearsing through the summer at Dover Furnace New York feels that its first production of the season will be ready for local showing about the third week in September." "Rome." "Benito Mussolini has come to the conclusion that neither the existing "marche reale" nor the fascist fighting song" ""Dear Venezia" is good enough to be counted as the Italian national hymn." "New York." "An estimated 25,000 theatregoers actors, directors, stage hands,the majority in New York are displaced by the efects of the Depression..." "I don't want to hurt him." "but I just need to work and live together with the Group Theatre." "If we had a relationship offstage, would that be reflected in our work?" "Sunday night." "People are still going out." "Enjoying themselves in cinemas, and theaters..." "How can I go to the movies tonight, to see "Scarface"?" "I'm scared enough of reality as it is." "Should I feel guilty?" "Weekends don't exist for journalists." "He even worked today." "How does he manage to enjoy himself?" "Being confronted day after day with the most horrible stories." "Based on other people's fate." "People like a neighbour every morning he leaves the house with his briefcase." "Pretending to go to work as usual." "And then I see him standing on one of those "bread lines"" "waiting for leftover food in his grey suit his tie removed." "Theater should deal with the tragedy of daily life." "Not the other way round." "It's not because of him that I'm moving out." "Is the farthest place" "I've ever been" "Is a new frontier for me" "And you balance things" "Like you wouldn't believe" "When you should just let things be" "Yes, you juggle things" "Cause you can't lose sight" "Of the wretched storyline" "It's the narrative that must go on" "Until the end of time" "And you're guilty of some self-neglect" "And the mind unravels for days" "I've told you once" "Yes, a thousand times" "I'm better off this way" "I'm better off this way" "Monday, August 28th 1939 ...operations for Dantzig defense have been completed and the city is now awaiting events tense but calm despite the fact that almost all believe war between Poland and Germany is imminent." "Paris." "It is not the British cabinet alone that will sit today to decide the answer to chancellor Hitler." "New York." "Cooling northeast winds brought relief to the city yesterday after 27 days of high temperatures and high humidity... get out of here before I hit your face again!" "get out of here!" "I kill the guy ?" "what do you want now kill?" "you kill alright?" "you're a murderer you're ?" "Where are you leaving for ?" "He knows that ?" "trouble with the cops" "He knows ?" "You're in ?" "What's the matter with that?" "None of your bussiness" "Just leave us alone" "You never brought nothing but trouble" "Just... stay away and leave us alone and die!" "But leave us alone" "I prefer the role of an usherette" "Hollywood films with social content." "How perverse." "A hundred and sixty five thousands dollars were the film rights." "?" "right after Samuel Goldwyn ?" "King with his Dead End at the Velasco Theatre" "Eleanor Roosevelt came to see us three times" "She'd even meet the first commands performance in the White House." "Presented at the request of the President." "Stars, stars, stars." "Hollywood is a dead end." "Everybody comes back." "My Clifford" "After "Waiting for Lefty" in a waking scene" "Hollywood offered four thousands dollars a week." "He resisted at first but then..." "ParadiseLostwentintothetrouble at the box office." "So he went." "?" "coming ?" "Hollywood" "As green writer doesn't have to sacrifice art and ideas for his work" "People can be given ?" "of problems, fighting for ?" "of life not the same time be entertained and even gripped." "Nonsense." "Hollywood corrupts people." "Good thing he came back." "Golden boy was back to the roots and successful." "But now it starts again" "Two failures and financial problems are enough." "And then the cohesiveness of the Group begins to crumble." "Hollywood is calling again." "Or even worse." "We are calling Hollywood." "Please, send some more stars." "Send Sylvia Sidney" "Needed to enhance box office appeal." "Where are the fundamental ideals?" "I had to leave the Group." "I preferred the role of an usherette" "No, don't..." "What's the matter?" "I ain't good enough for you?" "Oh, no, Linder." "You know Franzie?" "I never forgot you." "Ha, go on your Franzie game ?" ", come on" "They don't mean nothing." "Of course ?" "mean." "She ain't got nothing ?" "Remember that night on the roof?" "Yeah." "I remember." "The sky was full of stars and" "I was full of dreamy ideas." "Yeah." "Me too." "Couple of crazy kids we were." "We were gonna get married." "I bought a ring in the five-and-dime store." "Yeah." "I didn't have enough money to buy the licence." "Remember?" "It seems like yesterday." "We were talking about it right here." "Yesterday?" "Seems like a million years." "Wednesday, August 28th 1940" "The United States army transport American Legion is  scheduled to dock at the army base in South Brooklyn at one p.m. today." "carrying 897 refugees from the war zones of Europe" "Mexico City." "Leon Trotski's body was reduced to ashes yesterday afternoon in the crematorium attached to the Pantheon Civil Cemetery." "London." "Heavy German raids on various objectives in England were carried on  with hardly a pause into yesterday's night." "London suffered its most prolongued attack of the war." "She's gone for a snack and a drink with her boss." "Right now they were sitting in this bar on the corner Broadway and 52nd street talking to the Polish bar keeper." "The subject was... as always and everywhere in those days  the war in Europe." "Already a year ago." "The invasion of Poland." "When the New York rolls ferry opened this spring the Polish and Check pavillions were gone and on the 25th of June, the flag of the French pavillion was flying at half mast." "Paris has fallen into the hands of Hitler." "?" "?" "since the start of the war." "and now music from the occupied city of Paris music from a better time." "That's her boss." "They've just returned from the bar." "She's in the bathroom reapplying her lipstick." "Getting ready for the next scene as the secretary in this play." "Newspapers never sleep." "Steve has been telling me this for the last ten years." "Good thing they put me in the advertising department," "So I don't have to deal with any kind of crime story or social drama." "I simply get too emotional." "A result of the method acting" "I guess." "We even took the drugs of the protagonists of our plays." "to study their real experiences, to get into their moods," "and emotions." "And now, here in this office working as a secretary" "I feel I can prepare for any role." "Friday, August 28th 1942" "London." "It was disclosed today that secret new anti-aircraft guns would meet any alarm scale resumption of German air attacks against Britain this winter." "Washington." "The American people may be asked to observe one meatless day a week in a near future to save shipping space neeeded for the movement of war weapons to fighting fronts" "President Roosvelt said today." "Moscow." "While General Gregory Case ?" "offensive west of Moscow continues to meet with success the grim battle for Stalingrad grew in ferocity." "THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH." "by THORNTON WILDER" "DIRECTED BY ELIA KAZAN" " Good evening, ma'am." " Good evening." " Good evening." "Good evening sir." "Could you please call a taxi?" "Yes sir." " Good evening" " To the theater?" " Yes, to the Schubert Theater" " Good evening" "Hello?" "New Haven Hotel." "A taxi, please." "To the theater, yes." "Schubert Theater, thank you." "It'll come soon, sir." "Thank you." "It'll be here soon, hopefully." "Excelsior New Jersey." "The home of Mr. George Antrobus." "The inventor of the wheel" "Excelsior New Jersey" "The home of Mr. George Antrobus The inventor of the wheel" "This is his home:" "a commodious seven-room house" "Conveniently situated near a public school and a methodist church and a firehouse" "It's right handy to A  P" "This is his home." "A commodious seven-room house." "Conveniently situated near a public school and a methodist church and a firehouse." "It's right handy to A  P" "Mr. Antrobus himself." "He comes of very old stock." "And has made his way up from next to nothing." "Mr. Antrobus is a veteran of foreign wars." "And bears a number of scars, front and back." "(Whispers)" "Mr Antropous is a veteran of foreign wars and bears a number of scars." "front and back" "This is Mrs. Antrobus" "The charming and gracious president of the Excelsior Mothers Club." "Mrs. Antrobus is an excelent needle woman." "It's she who invented the apron on which so many interesting changes have been rung since." "So many interesting changes have been rung since." "Rung." "You shouldn't stare Alex." " It's embarrassing." " Was looking for the taxi." "So many interesting changes have been rung since." "Oh, oh, oh" "Six o'clock and the master not home yet." "Pray god nothing serious has happened to him crossing the Hudson river." "The fact is" "I don't know what'll become of us." "Here it is the middle of August on the coldest day of the year." "It's simply freezing;" "the dogs are sticking to the sidewalks;" "can anybody explain that?" "No." "But I'm not surprised." "The whole world is at sixes and sevens." "and why the house hasn't fallen down about and why the house hasn't fallen down about" "and why the house hasn't fallen down about our ears long ago it's a miracle to me." "You should be ashamed." "At your age!" "I didn't do anything to be ashamed of." "In the midst of life we are in the midst of death." "A truer word has never been spoken." "Mr and Mrs Antrobus are just opposite, waiting for a taxi to take them to the theater." "the theater where I'm gonna play the maids Sabina in two months time" "We'll miss the beginning." "I don't know why the woman is wearing a fur." "We've plenty of time." "It's the end of August." "I have to hurry." "But this is just the text of the play." "And I can hear the dinosaur and the mammouth." "We've managed to survive for some time now." "Catch-as-catch-can." "The fat and the lean." "And if the dinosaurs don't trample us to death and if the grasshoppers don't eat up our garden" "we'll all live to see better days." "Knock on wood!" "Here it is." "Let's go." "We ?" "the long hot and cold for some time now." "And my advise to you is not to enquire into why or wheter but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate." "That's my philosophy" "Thursday, August 28th 1952" "Senator Richard M. Nixon republican vice-presidential nominee released today details of his september campaign to all that will take him into 16 states." "Washington." "The Senate internal security sub-committee released a report yesterday charging that the radio writers guild is dominated by a small number of communists." "Seul." "Navy planes held heavy attacks at comunist power plants in Northeast Korea Wednesday while air-force super Fords and blade bombers followed that night with three hammer blows in the West" "Should I seek professional help?" "Steve says so." "No sleep all night." "But I know the reason anyway." "Judith was chasing the fire inspector down Colmer street with a bamboo spear from the theater." "He closed the shows." "He insisted that Julius Caesar dangerously flameable." "Nonsense." "The closing of the Heroes of Ubu Roi it's just an attempt to contain us." "The living theater's bohemian influence." "The ?" "is to... be... ?" "to make sure they don't have communists teaching our sons and daughters ?" "I realize... the Unamerican Activities virus" "is spreading across the country infecting people." "Threatening them." "Forcing them to confess, to betray colleages." "Who'll be the next to name names?" "It's horrible to suspect close friends as informers but who would have dared to think of ?" "Elia Kazan as a rat." "And then he took an ad in the New York Times to defend himself." "And to encourage others to do the same." "I think it is useful that certain of us had this kind of experience with the communists, for if we had not we should not know them so well." "Firsthand experience of dictatorship and thought control left me with an abiding hatred of these." "It left me with an abiding hatred of Communist philosophy and methods and the conviction that these must be resisted always." "The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions." "Elia Kazan." "Was this the same man who played the taxi driver in "Waiting for Lefty"?" "Who held up his fist at the end of ?" "strike." "as the audience ?" "Was this same man who directed of "The Skin of Our Teeth"" "with me as Sabina in New Haven ten years ago?" "Or the man who had a hard ?" "reputation for actually caring about the social content of his work." "Who even his Hollywood films tackled difficult issues like discrimination and revolution." "And now the closing of the Charawing theater it's too much." "We had such great performances." "Joan Cage." "?" "on a play in the future in the streets that's all we do" "always beginning again ... over and... over..." "Tuesday, August 28th 1956" "President Eisenhower ended a four-day golfing ?" "by the Pacific  and returned to the White House and politics today." "New York." "The first National Convention of the Communist Party of the USA since 1950 is to be held in this city next February the 9th to the 12th." "Bonn." "The West German and United States governments have concluded the payments agreement to cover orders for heavy armament from manufacturers in the United States" "Although I knew the sorroundings so well the park, the trees, the houses, the people" "I somehow felt I isolated from it." "As if I was looking into a diagram the Museum of natural history." "the one with the bisons and the painted background landscape of Montana." "We've never talked about it but I think we felt the same." "as a photographer he must have been used to this more than me." "I didn't know then that soon we'd never be able to share these moments again." "This morning ?" "looking out watching together" "in silence." "I didn't know then that I would have to talk in the future to put into words what I was seeing" "the link my eyes with my brain and my tongue" "but as soon as I was naming where are we seeing." "He would change." "The scene was never the same again." "Our ritual always ended with the news." "Back to reality." "And the latest news from Hollywood." "Elvis Presley has signed a contract with Paramount pictures early this year has just story ?" "his first movie on ?" "from Paramount too ?" "for Twentieth Century Fox" "?" "the western "The Reno Brothers"" "Here is the original version of the great hit "Hound Dog"" "by Big Mother Thornton." "Wednesday, August 28th 1957" "Nashville." "A campaign to intimidate the negroes who enroll their children in white schools began here today." "Havana." "Doctor San Diego Rey, Cuban minister of the interior lifted censorship today on all publications in English entering Cuba from the United States." "New York." "Today's new film is "3:10 to Yuma"." "A Columbian western drama starring Glen Ford, Van Hefflin and Felicia Farr at the" "Ok." "This looks good, Shirley." "We'll get started." "Turn around." "And..." "look at the window." "Turn your head." "And..." "look at me." "Now... sit down on the bed." "Yeah... and..." "look at the window." "Alright..." "look at the door." "And..." "look at me." "That was the first time Steve had asked me to pose for him." "And it was again the first time I could observe him working behind the camera." "It seems strange after knowing each other for such a long time." "Turn your body towards me and put your hand on the bed." "But it's simply never happened before." "And would never happen again." "He became a stranger to me at that moment." "As I might have been for him as well." "A woman he wanted to behave and look like the woman he imagined for his photograph." "I've experienced this a hundred times before with various stage directors." "But with Steve it was different." "Tense..." "almost erotic." "To be treated by the closest person in your life like a stranger in order to become somebody else" "somebody I created according to his imagination" "for him." "I should not dare to leave my friend" "Because - because if he should die" "While I was gone..." "and I... too late..." "Should reach the heart that wanted me" "If I should disappoint the eyes" "That hunted... hunted so... to see..." "And could not bear to shut until" "They "noticed" me..." "they noticed me..." "If I should stab the patient faith" "So sure I'd come..." "so sure I'd come..." "It listening..." "listening..." "went to sleep..." "Telling my tardy name..." "My heart would wish it broke before..." "Since breaking then..." "since breaking then..." "Were useless as next morning's sun..." "Where midnight frosts... had lain!" "Friday, August 28th 1959" "Three dock workers charged with the theft of two cinemascope lenses valued at 3500 dollars each from a Brooklyn Pier, were arraigned in Brooklyn Felony Court yesterday before magistrate George Reider" "London." "Two British scientists have reported the surgical removal and successfull regrowth of lenses in the eyes of rabbits." "New York." "Don't knock the spell of illusion." "That's what Swedish Ingmar Bergman says in the latest of his highly esoteric and tecnichally exquisite films "The Magician"." "It opened at a Fifth Avenue cinema yesterday." "Imagine prisoners who have been chained since childhood deep inside a cave not only are their limbs immobilized by chains their heads are as well so their eyes are fixed on a wall." "Chains since childhood deep inside a cave" "Behind the prisoners is an enormous fire and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way" "along which men carry shapes of various animals, plants and other things." "The shapes cast shadows on the wall which occupy the prisoners attention." "Also when one of the shape carriers speaks an echo against the wall causes the prisoners to believe that the words come from the shadows." "The prisoners engage in what appears to us to be a game." "A game..." "Naming the shapes as they come by" "This, however, is the only reality that they know even though they are seeing merely shadows of images." "Suppose a prisoner is released and compelled to stand up and turn around." "His eyes will be blinded by the fire light and the shapes passing will appear less real than their shadows." "Similarly if he's dragged up out of the cave into the sunlight his eyes will be so blinded that he will not be able to see anything." "At first, he will be able to see darker shapes such as shadows and only lit up, righter and brighter objects." "The last object he would be able to see is the sun which in time he would learn to see as that, this is, that provides the seasons and the courses of the year" "and presides over all the things in the visible region and is in some sort the cause of all these things" "that they had seen." "The last object that he'll be able to see is the sun." "Monday, August 28th 1961" "Mayor Wagner and his supporters for his renomination campaign yesterday can be just today through the decay ?" "slums and re-housing projects of the Lower East Side." "?" "Sport." "President Kennedy's spent a quiet holiday on Cape Cod today." "Havana." "Industry Minister, Ernesto Guevara, said today shortages of raw materials and spare parts have forced many factories in Cuba to halt production." "He blamed aggresion of imperialism for the shortage." "Good morning doctor." "Good morning, Steve." "How are you feeling today?" "Look to the left." "To the right." "Only after images" "for the rest of his life" "since yesterday" "hospital sounds following me everywhere." "All the way from New York." "In the car." "The whole night." "Even in my dreams." "When will I get rid of them?" "Wednesday, August 28th 1963" "A 28-ton trailer truck with a Dane at the wheel and two Czechoslovak refugees in the cab crashed into Austria from Czechoslovakia yesterday by running a metal gate at the border." "Washington." "More that two hundred thousand americans most of them black but many of them white demonstrated here today for a full and speedy Programme of civil rights and equal job opportunities." "Pula." "Premier Krustchev and President Tito ended two days of official talks on Raeny Island today..." "Est ce que le docteur vous en dit quelque chose a propos de votre de moi?" "De toi." "Oui." "Il m'a dit que il ne savait pas" "Il ?" "espoir il avait trouvé un jour" "OK" "Je ne sais pas." "?" "danse" "Vous ?" "Danser?" "Danser?" "Oui, ?" "Vous voulez bien?" "Intermissions" "It's like suddenly waking up from a dream." "How would it be to wake up with no memory?" "To not know who what where from" "no past no friends to ask." "Just a body without a history." "May be it's still easier for him than for her." "Discovering that her man who she thought was dead is alive" "but without any memory." "He doesn't recognize her." "He doesn't believe her." "Would it happen again tonight?" "Steve." "Lying beside me." "I hear him breathing." "I smell his body." "Memories of him." "Imagination." "Maybe it's the room." "The furniture." "The environment that keeps the memory." "I'm glad I'm moving out tomorrow." "Trois petites notes de musique" "Ont plié boutique" "Au creux du souv'nir" "C'en est fini d'leur tapage" "Ell's tournent la page" "Et s'en vont dormir" "Mais un jour sans crier gare" "Ell's vous revienn'nt en mémoire" "Toi,tu voulais oublier" "Un p'tit air galvaudé" "Dans les rues de l'été" "La la la la la Toi" "Tu n'oublieras jamais" "Une rue un été" "Une fill' qui fredonait" "La la la la la tout rêve" "Rim' avec s'achève" "Le tien n'rime à rien" "Fini avant qu'il commence" "Le temps d'une danse" "L'espac' d'un refrain" "Vous voiyez?" "Vous danse tres bien." "Vous etes une gentil femme" "?" "?" "sous le ?" "que vous ?" "?" "fiançee" "Il ?" "?" "du Paris" "Mon ?" "ne pas" "Et ?" "Il ?" "?" "Ou sous ne pas" "?" "Trois petites notes de musique" "Qui vous font la nique" "Du fond des souv'nirs" "Lèv'nt un cruel rideau d'scène" "Sur mill' et un' peines" "Qui n'veulent pas mourir" "Thursday, August 29th 1963" "This is George Eassy from WGBH 89.7 with the morning edition of our broadcast: yesterday of the Civil Rights March." "As part of the morning educational radio network we'll bring to you some of the highlights of the events." "Let's start with the song that expresses best the feeling and the mood that brought together" "250,000 people" "?" "We shall overcome" "We shall overcome" "?" "the old man" "What's on the radio?" "Emilio" "Shall I take it?" "No, thanks." "You can leave it." "?" "with me in the car." "I'll follow you in a minute." "?" "car" "Thank you." "... I do believe" "We shall overcome some day" "We shall overcome" "We shall overcome" "What an experience" "Singing in front of 250,000 people" "Singing and fighting with them." "Oh, deep in my..." "Should I go Europe?" "Join the living theater again" "Trade the stage for the streets of Rome," "Paris." "London." "Be with the people in the streets." "Joan Baez, yesterday afternoon, in front of the Lincoln Memorial." "I need some time." "And now the words the speech that made the headlines of today's newspapers." "First, Cape Cod." "The words of Reverend Martin Luther King" "Then I'll see ...we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow," "I still have a dream." "It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream." "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:" ""We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."" "I have a dream thatonedayontheredhillsofGeorgia," "the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." "I have a dream that one day" "even the state of Mississippi, a state  sweltering with the heat of injustice,  sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice." "I have a dream" "that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color  of their skin but by the content of their character." "I have a dream today!" "John F. Kennedy Airport." "Another three days in New York then Rome." "My new life." "Together with the living theater again working with Luigi Nono on his new piece." "Dedicated to the Vietcong." "Travelling on a train" "like living in a dream." "An in-between state." "The past is gone." "And the future is yet to come." "A bright faraway light." "And it's a fact that one never sees the sun in a dream other that one often is aware of a brighter far away light." "Was another French poet." "What was his name?" "He went insane." "The other passengers sharing the same space and time" "the same dream so close and yet so distant." "If anybody's friend be dead" "It's sharpest of the theme" "The thinking how they walked alive" "At such and such a time" "Their costume, of a Sunday" "Some manner of the hair" "A prank nobody knew but them" "Lost, in the sepulchre" "How warm they were such a day" "You almost feel the date" "So short way off it seems;" "And now - they 're centuries from that." "Shirley VISIONS OF REALITY" "Is the farthest place" "I've ever been" "Is a new frontier for me" "And you balance things" "Like you wouldn't believe" "When you should just let things be" "Yes, you juggle things" "Cause you can't lose sight" "Of the wretched storyline" "It's the narrative that must go on" "Until the end of time" "And you're guilty of some self-neglect" "And the mind unravels for days" "I've told you once" "Yes, a thousand times" "I'm better off this way" "I'm better off this way" "Where's my queen of hearts" "My royal flush" "I have cleaned and scrubbed her decks" "My suicide, my better days" "There's nothing I regret" "I've placed the Gods" "In a Ziploc bag" "I've put them in a drawer" "They've refused my prayers for the umpteenth time" "So I'm evening up the score" "Small metal gods from a casting line" "From a factory in Mumbai" "Some manual labourers bread and butter" "And a single-minded life" "Small metal gods" "Cheap souvenirs" "You've abandoned me for sure" "I'm dumping you, my childish things" "I'm evening up the score" "English subtitles by MOC Sinchronization by GGG"