The Secret of NIMH Script

==Transcript/Opening Previews==
(We see a black screen momentarily and then hear a judge banging his gavel and yelling "ORDER IN THE COURT! ORDER IN THE COURT!!!" in a rather unconvincing manner. Then the screen lightens up and we see a black-and-white courtroom scene, possibly taken from an old movie. The judge continues speaking. "Respond the question, did you or did you not copy The Secret of NIMH," he says to the guilty man in this scene. We see an old woman shaking and gritting her teeth. "Well," the judge says. "I did," the man says in a disgraceful manner. Everyone gasps and the woman shrieks. "Take him away, boys," the judge says to two policemen. After the guilty man is taken away, the green FBI warnings spin up to us briefly. "Don't even think about copying this videotape," the judge says and we hear the sound of a jail door closing)
(Screen fades from black, revealing the title card, "Coming Only to Theaters this 1992 Holiday Season")
Mark Elliott: Coming only to theaters this 1992 holiday season, the newest Disney animated classic from Walt Disney Pictures.
(After the Walt Disney Pictures logo, we see behind-the-scenes footage for "Aladdin")
Here at the Walt Disney Studios, our animators and artists are hard at work completing our 31st all-new animated film.
(The title for the film appears)
"Aladdin". And here's a sneak peek at this very special musical adventure.
Genie: (sings) Well, Ali Baba had them (40 thieves strike from his open hands like playing cards and surround Aladdin) forty thieves, Scheherezadie had a thousand tales.
Mark Elliott: It's filled with wonderful new Disney characters and six new songs from the Academy Award-winning team of "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast".
Genie: (Catches a falling Aladdin with a red pillow) I'm in the mood. To help you, dude! (Sticks his tongue out) You ain't never had a friend like me.
Mark Elliott: Join Aladdin and his magic lamp on the most emotional magic carpet ride ever. Don't miss the fun. Coming to theaters for Thanksgiving 1992 from Walt Disney Pictures!
(We cut to the end of the song, where Genie's body forms a tornado and sucks everything apart)
Genie: (singing) You ain't never had a friend like me. Ha!
(On the final note, we cut to a black background with white subtitles, reading "Coming to Theaters for Thanksgiving 1992 from Walt Disney Pictures")
(Screen fades from black, revealing the title card, "Coming to Home Video")
Mark Elliott: Coming soon from Walt Disney Home Video.
(Screen fades from black, revealing the Walt Disney Pictures logo)
Walt Disney Pictures presents its all-new 30th feature-length animated motion picture.
(Belle opens the door to the Beast's castle)
Belle: Is anyone here?
Chip: Mama, there's a girl in the castle.
Fifi: A girl?
Lumiere: A girl!
Mark Elliott: The classic story of "Beauty and the Beast"! He was a lonely beast, cursed by a mysterious spell. And she was the beautiful young girl who could set him and his kingdom free.
Lumiere: She's the one! She has come to break the spell!
Mark Elliott: They were two full opposites...
Belle: I don't want to have anything to do with him!
Beast: But she is being so difficult!
Mark Elliott: Until something wonderful happened.
Belle: (sings) There's something sweet....
Mrs. Potts: Straighten up!
Belle: (singing) And almost kind.
Lumiere: Show me the grin.
Belle: (singing) But he was mean and he was cursed and unrefined. And now, he's dear...
Lumiere: You look so...
Belle: (singing) And so unsure.
Beast: Foolish.
Belle: (singing) I wonder why I didn't see it there before.
Mark Elliott: It's a story filled with fun...
(Maurice lets out a big sneeze in Cogsworth's face, fogging it up. The hands swish back and forth like windshield wipers as Maurice blows his nose)
Maurice: Oh! I'm begging your pardon.
(Gaston, Lefou and the villagers attempt to break into the Beast's castle)
Mark Elliott: Adventure...
Lumiere: Sacre bleu! Invaders!
(Dick gets ready to chop a pair of dressers, but they sock him in the face with their drawers. A brush and comb throw Walter inside the wardrobe. She twitches for a while before he emerges with a red beehive, pearl necklace, gold star earrings, purple bra and matching gloves, green skirt and heels. The moment he sees his new look, he lets out a loud, anguished shriek)
Mark Elliott: And dozens of wonderful new Disney characters!
(Lumiere's burns Lefou's rump with a powerful Flamethrower. The moment he feels the jab, he yells in pain and jumps into the air)
Cogsworth: Keep it down.
Mark Elliott: Featuring six new songs from the Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist of "The Little Mermaid".
Servants: (singing) Be our guest, be our guest. Our command is your request. It's ten years since we had everybody here, and we're obsessed!
(Gaston takes his blunderbuss and shoots at Cogsworth, sending him flying into a bowl of batter)
Mark Elliott: Share the fun, the magic and the music of an entertainment event you'll never forget.
Servants: (singing) Be our gueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeest!
Mark Elliott: Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"!
(The title of the movie appears)
(Screen fades from black, revealing the blue-and-gold Walt Disney Home Video logo)
Brian Cummings: Coming to video for the first time, Disney's original classic: "The Rescuers"! It's Bernard and Bianca on their very first rescue mission to save Penny from Madame Medusa!
Penny: Put me down, Brutus!
Brian Cummings: It's runaway fun and soaring Disney adventure!
Digger: Where'd everybody go?
Brian Cummings: On land, on sea and in the air!
(Evinrude plays a bugle call)
All: CHARGE!!
Brian Cummings: It's Walt Disney's original classic, "The Rescuers"! Coming this fall to videocassette for the first time.
(Screen fades from black, revealing the title card, "Special Previews After our Feature from Walt Disney Home Video")
Mark Elliott: Be sure to stay tuned after our feature for a look at more special previews from Walt Disney Home Video.
(Screen fades from black, revealing a purple background. The words "Feature Presentation" are written out during a fanfare)
Mark Elliott: And now, our feature presentation.
(The Walt Disney Classics logo is shown and the movie starts)
==Transcript/Movie==
(Mrs. Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lives in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named Mr. Fitzgibbon. It is a winter house, such as some field mice move to if food becomes too scarce, and the living too hard in the woods and pastures. In the soft earth of a bean, potato, black-eyed pea and asparagus patch, there is plenty of food left over for mice after the human crop has been gathered)
(Mrs. Frisby and her family are especially lucky in the house itself. It is a slightly damaged cinder block, the hollow kind with two oval holes through it. It has somehow been abandoned in the garden during the summer and lays almost fully buried, with only a bit of one corner showing above ground, which is now Mrs. Frisby has discovered it. It lays on its side in such a fashion that the solid parts of the block form a roof and a floor, both waterproof, and the hollows make two)
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