# A DAY IN SANTA FE

By
Lynn Riggs and James Hughes

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Again the sun beyond the hills
Wakes and stirs --

1. FADE IN. Santa Fe from a hill. LONG SHOT in the early morning, Just past dawn, with the glow of light growing behind the rim of the mountains. PAN.

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Dawn silence fills
The domed tremendous glowing sky.
The veils of dark begin to die.

2. Cross of the Martyrs.

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And hill and valley, town and flower
Stir in the long-awaited hour.

3. LONG SHOT of the Cathedral in the dawn.

4. MEDIUM SHOT of the Cathedral showing one tower.

5. The Governor's Palace portal.

6. A typical Santa Fe street of the old type. Quiet. Nothing moving. Then a paper lifts idly and moves along the street.

7. Another shot of the Governor's Palace portal. A LONG PANNING SHOT from Hal's roof.

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Softly so as not to wake
Any sound the blossoms shake.

8. Blossoms stir softly in the dawn breeze.

9. CLOSE UP. Daisies sway gently.

10. Hollyhocks and willows sway a little.

11. Morning-glories move gently.

12. A little bell moves.

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And moving animal and man
Attest to what the sun began.

13. A burro laden with wood starts down a mountain trail alone.
He stops, looking at a sign.

14. CLOSE UP. A sign which says:

"Santa Fe -- 5 Miles"

15. The burro goes on down the trail out of sight.

16. A cow switches her tail gently from a dark shed. She turns, the whites of her eyes glowing.

17. A little boy dips water from the Acequia.

18. He climbs through a rail fence and goes down a corn row with a bucket of water.

19. CLOSE SHOT. An old Mexican door and door step. A hand puts a bottle of milk there and withdraws.

20. Another door step. The hand with milk again as before.

21. Another door step. The hand opens a screen door and sets the milk inside. A cat jumps out before the door closes.

22. On a lawn spotted with early morning shadows a sprayer is turned on.

23. A shop door is unlocked by a hand.

24. Another shop door is unlocked.

25. A little burro crosses a tiny bridge over the Acequia and goes down to drink.

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Swifter as the morning goes,
Wheels grind, a whistle blows.

26. ACCELERATION. Swift CLOSE UPS. A whistle blows.

27. ACCELERATION. Wheels and belts turn.

28. ACCELERATION. More wheels and belts.

29. ACCELERATION. A motor wheel turns rapidly.

30. ACCELERATION. A ribbon of street taken from the front of a rapidly moving car.

31. ACCELERATION. A cowboy dashes along the street.

32. ACCELERATION. More ribbon of street.

33. ACCELERATION. A bell begins to ring.

34. A woman in a black shawl goes down the street.

35. The bell goes on ringing.

36. Several black-shawled women come along the street.

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And the mid-morning life's begun
By people going with the sun.

37. The black shawled women go on and out of sight.

38. Mexican hands smear adobe mud on a wall.

39. An artist comes out of his door and goes down a hill.

40. Outside the studio. The artist comes into sight down some steps, goes into his studio. The camera PANS slowly to the big north light window of his studio.

41. Interior CLOSE UP. The artist paints.

42. Silhouette against the window. The artist goes on painting.

43. A Mexican man comes out of his house and leans lazily against the wall in the sun.

44. An Indian accosts a man coming along the street. The man stops. The Indian shows things.

45. CLOSE UP of hands. The Indian is showing his things. The man's hand points to a rich, barbaric ring on the Indian's finger and takes it off.

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46. MEDIUM SHOT. They bargain and finally agree on a price.

47. MEDIUM SHOT. The man pays and goes on.

48. CLOSE UP. A succession of different kinds of feet move along a strip of sidewalk.

a. Mexican workman's feet.

b. American shoes.

c. Mexican guarraches.

d. An Indian woman's feet in moccasins.

e. A young American girl's high heeled shoes.

f. Cowboy boots.

49. The feet of the burro move along the wall.

50. The burro comes to the bridge on College, turns and goes down the embankment underneath.

51. MEDIUM SHOT of the burro arriving under the arch and stopping. CUT TO

52. Old man standing in sun as before.

53. CUT BACK TO the burro climbs up the embankment on the other side.

54. MEDIUM SHOT. The burro seen between the trunks of trees scrambling up the bank.

55. Burro comes to a sign by the bridge and stops.

56. CLOSE UP of sign with part of the burro's head showing as he reads it. It says:

"Persons committing nuisances under this bridge will be prosecuted."

57. MEDIUM SHOT. Burro flees down the street.

58. CLOSE UP of hands sharpening pencils at a pencil sharpener.

59. CLOSE UP. A pad of paper. Hands reach, pick up the pad.

60. The writer comes out of a house and goes to a chair on a portal.

61. The writer sits, picks up pad and pencils and starts to work.

62. CLOSE UP. The beginning of a poem.

63. CLOSE SHOT. A girl leans over a wall talking. The camera PANS to an enormous Great Dane, who is listening to her.

64. Many people move along a busy street, crossing it at the corner.

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65. The Plaza, busy with cars.

66. A party of tourists go in the front door of a store after admiring something in the window.

67. CLOSE UPS:

a. A succession of three paintings by Indian artists.

b. Two Katchina dolls.

c. An iron burro.

68. The burro stands idly, still with his load of wood.

69. The old man still stands in the sun.

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"Time's moving finger", it is writ,
Writes and writes -- and this is it:

70. CLOSE UP of a clock at twelve.

71. MEDIUM SHOT of people at lunch in a patio.

72. CLOSE UP. A dog comes round the master's chair. The man gives him a bone to chew.

73. CLOSE UPS of food:

a. A large steak.

b. An enchalada.

c. Another enchalada.

74. A snow-white goat strips and eats an ear of corn.

75. A dog chews at a meaty bone.

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Take ye _siestas_ while ye may --

76. MEDIUM SHOT. Under a shed stripes of sun at regular intervals fall across the gloom. A cowboy comes in, spreads his blanket and lies down.

77. CLOSE UP. The cowboy throws away his cigarette, puts his head on his saddle, pulls his hat over his eyes and goes to sleep.

78. MEDIUM SHOT. A girl comes into a garden, lies down in a garden chair.

79. CLOSE UP. She goes to sleep.

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80. The burro goes to sleep standing.

81. MEDIUM SHOT. A man comes to a little shrine below which is a stone bench. He lies down.

82. CLOSE UP. He goes to sleep. The camera PANS to a beautiful Madonna in a niche, in a sun-flecked wall.

83. A large window from the outside of a house. The curtains are slowly drawn against the glare of mid-day.

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The curtains close against the day.

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# A DAY IN SANTA FE

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The slumbrous halls are dark and deep --
But everyone is not asleep:

1. Indian feet pound the earth.

2. An Indian hand is beating a drum.

3. Indian feet pound the earth.

4. Another shot of the feet from a different angle.

5. Indian hand beats the drum.

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"Bring rain,
As we bring now
Our gift of dance and song --"

6. LONG SHOT of Indians dancing for rain.

7. The feet pound.

8. A small cloud comes into the sky.

9. The feet pound.

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Bodies
Reddened, and gourds,
Rain girdles, ornaments,
The skins of foxes --

10. MEDIUM SHOT. A long line of dancers like a row of corn.

11. A tree tosses in a wind. The cloud is growing.

12. MEDIUM SHOT of the dance.

13. Two gread clouds combine in the sky.

14. MEDIUM SHOT of the dance.

15. A tree tosses wildly in a wind.

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The slumbrous halls are deep and dark...

16. The girl sleeps on.

17. The Madonna watches silently.

18. The man on his bench still sleeps.

19. The burro stands as before.

20. The old man stands.

21. CUT BACK TO MEDIUM SHOT of the dancers.

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Just now
Across the line
Of these red men there swept --
Like wings of thunder at the sun --

22. A large and ominous cloud of rain.

23. A LONG SHOT of the dance PANNING upward to the roofs of houses in the Indian pueblo with watching people outlined against the sky.

24. A tree tosses and sways violently.

25. CLOSE UP. In a tiny pool a few little rain drops fall.

26. The cowboy wakes up.

27. MEDIUM SHOT. He walks out looking at the sky.

28. The canvas over his shed flaps in the wind under a rainy sky.

29. The cowboy rushes out.

30. CLOSE UP. The girl wakes.

31. MEDIUM SHOT: She runs in, drawing her robe about her.

32. The old man looks at the sky, dashes in the house.

33. CLOSE UP of the Madonna. The camera PANS to the man below waking.

34. MEDIUM SHOT. The man gets up, runs in the house.

35. Rain through trees pouring down.

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36. Rain in a puddle.

37. Rain through trees.

38. Rain through trees.

39. A parrot gets down off his perch and waddles quickly into the house.

40. Rain on a sidewalk.

41. Rain in ripples in a street.

42. The Acequia pours down a little water fall.

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And just as suddenly the sun
Speaks from a cloud.

43. A cloud opens letting the sun shine forth.

44. A succession of lyric joyous faces. CLOSE UPS:

a. A young girl.

b. A woman.

c. A man.

d. Another man.

45. The old man comes out of his house and again takes his stand against the wall.

46. A lyric sky seen through an apple tree.

47. An airplane zooms overhead.

48. A girl sees the airplane, calls to her giant Great Dane who puts his feet on a wall and peers upward at the sky.

49. CLOSE UP. A child looks up at the airplane.

50. CLOSE UP. A man looks.

51. The airplane crosses the sky again.

52. A peacock looks up startled, stretching his neck to see.

53. The burro leaves his siesta and starts away.

54. CLOSE UP. A little boy is sitting at the foot of a sign. The burro's head appears as if asking a question. The boy points upward, the camera PANNING to show the sign which says:

"Acequia Madre"

The camera PANS back. The burro's head is withdrawn.

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55. A Mexican woman comes out of her house looking anxiously up and down the street. She sees the burro, goes to meet him.

56. CLOSE UP. The woman starts taking the wood off the burro's back. CUT TO

57. The old man standing in the sun. CUT BACK TO

58. CLOSE UP. The woman takes the last few sticks of the burro's wood, puts a dollar in a little pouch on his back.

59. MEDIUM SHOT. She starts the burro on down the street and stands looking after him.

60. LONG SHOT. A car rushes over a hill into sight and grinds to a swift stop.

61. CLOSE UP. A man jumps out of a car and rushes into an adobe bath house, the camera PANNING after him.

62. A swimming pool and in the distance the bath house door out of which the man rushes dressed in a bathing suit. He runs up the steps of the pool and without pause plunges headfirst into the water.

63. The man's head rises from the water sputtering, and he stares right into the face of a gigantic white swan.

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The afternoon is warm and round, Infectiously, the liquid sound...

64. CLOSE UP. Hands are shaking a cocktail shaker.

65. CLOSE UP. Cocktails are poured into many glasses.

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Of laughter ripples on the lawn.

66. On a lawn several people are drinking hilariously.

67. CLOSE UP. A hand puts mint in some tall mint juleps.

68. CLOSE UP. Two hands take the glasses, clink them together and lift them out of sight.

69. A steam whistle blows.

70. The old man goes in from his day of toil.

71. MEDIUM SHOT. A little girl goes into her playhouse.

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72. CLOSE UP. She peers out the window.

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The sun is lower, lamps are lit
Against the dark where people sit.

73. MEDIUM SHOT. A man goes into his house in the dusk and turns on a lamp whose light streams out the window.

74. The Cross of the Martyrs against the sky at sunset.

75. The little burro goes up the mountain trail. He stops, looking off.

76. An ancient sheep herder with his flock stand in the sunset glow.

77. The burro goes on.

78. A woman and a child in a dim light walk along a white picket fence.

79. Cars begin to gather in the Plaza before the Governor's Palace.

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The plaza gathers half the town;
Moonlight and music shimmers down.

80. MEDIUM SHOT, PANNING, of a Mexican orchestra.

81. People gather in the Plaza passing a peanut wagon.

82. The moon rises beyond the hills.

83. CLOSE UP. The violinists of the orchestra pick at the strings.

84. MEDIUM SHOT. The leader of the orchestra.

85. Children in white play under the trees of the Plaza.

86. Children run about in the dim light.

87. MEDIUM SHOT. The orchestra plays on.

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A hand is lighting the burro's wood,

88. MEDIUM SHOT. The woman who bought the burro's wood walks up to a fireplace where the wood has been laid. She leans forward to light it.

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89. CLOSE UP. The woman's hand lights the wood. It flames up.

90. MEDIUM SHOT. The woman sitting before the fire.

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While he goes home to love and food.

91. MEDIUM SHOT. The burro turns off the trail and goes out of sight.

92. He comes into a lot. The camera PANS, keeping him in sight. Waiting for him is a female burro. They nose each other in greeting and then both plunge their heads into a tub of food.

93. MEDIUM SHOT. The woman still sits before the blazing fire.

94. The Cross of the Martyrs in the darkening sky.

95. Close UP. The fire flames up brightly. FADE OUT.

The End.