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It struck me yesterday after I posted about Saturday's quote that a clip from Ep #315 was used to promote DS when it was on in '80s syndication in my area. I dug out the tape I thought the promo was on and indeed it was. However, for some reason the video portion wouldn't play in my current VCR, only the audio - this, despite the fact that the video and audio for the DS eps do play. Who knows? However, I've recreated it as best I could:
This promo ran Jan-Mar of 1986, between the time Eps #315-#365 were airing...
7 AM - Collinwood's foyer - Liz tells Stokes that while she knows Vicki sent for him, she fears what she will ask him to do. Stokes promises to help as much as possible, but Liz wants Vicki to forget Jeff Clark--it's for the best. Don't encourage her, says Liz.
...
...the scene is shot exactly as scripted. But what is interesting is that it includes unscripted dialogue as Carlotta explains "Collinwood was built by Joshua Collins in the late 1600s. Of course, there have been many changes and additions since then." And given that Sam Hall once remarked that due to DC's "newfound directorial style," the original cut of NoDS (the cut before the 129 minutes long recovered cut) was supposedly 165 minutes long and that length was at least partly because the cut supposedly included several instances of shots of characters simply walking down long halls before they get to the points of scenes, I've often wondered if that bit of dialogue from Carlotta was added in post production so as not to have Carlotta, Tracy and Quentin be seen to be simply walking down the corridor from the drawing room to the stairwell? But who knows? But what's also interesting is that in this instance it was SH himself who wrote Scene 30 to simply be them walking down the corridor, so he certainly couldn't blame DC's directorial style for it in that instance.
And there are still no differences between the way DC's and Grayson Hall's scripts are written up to this point.
...
30 INT - FIRST FLOOR CORRIDOR - DAY - WIDE ANGLE 30
Shooting through Dining Room doors with the table
and center piece in F.G., the three of them walk
TOWARD CAMERA.
...
...
31 INT - FIRST FLOOR STAIRWAY - DAY 31
ANGLE from second floor landing as they climb the
stairs TOWARD CAMERA.
And that's when Sunday's quote -Page 10/Scene 31 - Carlotta: 'As a child I used to hide here. They had so many parties then. All the guests...were so elegantly dressed and the candles were always burning.'
- comes up, followed by Monday's quote -Page 10/Scene 31 - Tracy: 'You lived here as a child?'
- coming up, followed by Tuesday's quote -Page 10/Scene 31 - Carlotta: 'My mother was the housekeeper.'
- coming up, followed by the script shifting to Scene 32:
32 PAN WITH THEM as they reach the second floor and 32
walk by CAMERA heading for the Gallery. As they
pass the steps leading to the third floor, Quentin
stops.
GROUP - HIGH ANGLE
QUENTIN
What's up there?
CARLOTTA
Nothing you would want to see now.
And that's when Wednesday's quote -Page 10/Scene 32 - Quentin: 'Is that the tower I saw from the outside?'
- comes up, followed by today's quote -Page 10/Scene 32 - Carlotta: 'Yes. It's used for storage now.'
- coming up, followed by the script continuing with:
They start walking again as Quentin hesitates for
a moment longer, still looking up the stairs
TOWARD CAMERA.
32 CONTD CONTD 32
Finally, he turns away and EXITS THE SHOT.
HOLD on empty corridor as their VOICES and
FOOTSTEPS TRAIL OFF.
CARLOTTA (O.S.)
The master bedroom is this way.
It affords a beautiful view of
the front grounds.
End of scene.
And so far there are still no differences between the way DC's and Grayson Hall's scripts are written. However, in DC's script he has notations for Scene 31: "Hand Held," "also HIGH FROM 2nd FLOOR hold all the way," and "Try a side track all in profile CU as they go up stairs" - and for Scene 32 he has the notation: "Cut Too: HIG ANG" (no doubt meaning a high angle). Though the interesting thing is almost none of that is how things were shot in what was used in the film. And Grayson's script also has a notation for Scene 32, but more on that when we get to the differences in the dialogue.
And when it comes to any differences in the dialogue, Carlotta actually says "As a child I used to hide here. So many parties in those days. And the guests were so" over the end of Scene 30 as she, Tracy and Quentin disappear up the stairs and mostly off screen - the only part that's delivered during Scene 31 and on screen is "elegantly dressed. And the candles were always burning" - and when Tracy questions if Carlotta lived at Collinwood as a child, it's actually said at the end of Scene 31 and into the beginning of Scene 32 and mostly off camera - and Carlotta's actual reply is "Yes. My mother was the housekeeper" (and it's interesting how Carlotta isn't actually speaking of her own childhood - but of course, no viewers would actually pick up on that this early in the film) - and when Quentin looks up and inquires what's up higher than where they are, Caroltta actually replies with "Oh, nothing you'd be interested in now" - and after Quentin asks if it's the tower, Carlotta simply replies with "Yes", with the "It's used for storage now" dropped - and after disappearing off screen, what Carlotta then actually says is "The master bedroom is this way. It has an excellent view of the front grounds" (and that's where in Grayson's script she's made a notation crossing out "affords" and substituting "has" - though there isn't any notation crossing out "a beautiful" and substituting "an excellent").
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]Vicki is pacing her room at the Old House when Jeremiah comes in with her clothes--keep them hidden, he advises. He tells her they must concoct a story, a plausible lie, to tell Joshua, or she'll be in danger.