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The Eleventh Hour graphic and show opener.

Host Robert Lipsyte welcomes viewers and introduces the show. He introduces and cuts to a film clip about Times Square by Legs McNeal (Spin Magazine) made for BBC's Late Show.

Film clip ends, fade out

B&W footage, pan down from large hi-rise to iconic scene of Times Square at night - looking down on all the theater marquees, traffic, peds, people outside the Majestic Theater.

Zoom in on Howard Johnson's Restaurant neon sign with a few of the neon letters burned out .

Pretty African American drag queen in pink dress, swirling, posing for the camera - background voices of her friends telling her how gorgeous she is,

Blonde hair'd drag queen with big hoop earrings taking bite of a peach, and blowing a kiss Marilyn Monroe style, then zoom in on her face with big smile

Pan out on three dimensional potential futuristic model of Times Square including peds walking down the street, convertible cars parked

Prostitute in short yellow mini dress, long dark hair, strolling down the street, turns and poses for camera. Other peds nearby and Hasidic Jewish man walking toward camera.

African American Film Producer, Rudy Langlais, talking with unseen unknown interviewer about Times Square says he thinks the city, "needs that place where danger collects".

Young, energetic, African American talking head girl on the street with big black hat and large white t-shirt (with big black letters obscured) just happy to be out. She states she just came from the movies. An African American male is jumping up and down behind her.

Cutaway to archival footage of ticker tape coming down from tall building in New York City, over Times Square - (V Day) Victory Day 1945

More vintage footage Times Square, 1945. Crowd holding a man up on his back - his arms waving back and forth, people waving at the cameras, celebrating, not an inch of space between them.

B&W archival footage tilt down on huge celebratory crowd in Times Square, not an inch of space between people, all of them waving

B&W archival wide shot Times Square jammed packed with people on V-Day 1945, ticker tape falling from the buildings. Scenes of Times Square in celebration of the end of the war.

Navy sailor hugging his gal, other Navy sailors gathered around

Navy sailor Navy guy bent over hugging and kissing a gal all the way to the ground.

Pan in on a grid map of New York City, section of Times Square, Broadway and 42nd street section. Narration by McNeal

B&W aerial Times Square

B&W vintage Times Square photo (very early 1900's) as narration by historian talks about how the Square was named.

Clip 1920's Times Square, crowds of peds, traffic. Narrator talks about the Times putting up the motograph new service - the electronic news ticker.

Wide shot of the Times Motograph News Bulletin service or "zipper" as it was known.

man grabbing a newspaper at the newsstand

vintage clip, men looking up, pointing at unseen Motograph News Bulletin

B&W night time shot tilt down on Times Square, 1920's or '30's, vintage cars, lots of people, neon signs, traffic.

Times Square at night 1920's or 1930's - neon signs, loads of cars, "the great Ziegfeld" sign, "Camels" sign and many more

1937 Happy New Year neon sign in Times Square

Long white table clothed tables with coffee cups, New Year's hats pompoms, champagne.

Men decked out in their fancy fur collared coats and top hats entering upscale restaurant.

Another vintage clip Times Square at night, dark footage, people dressed up at coming and going, theater marquis and neon lights

Conrad still chatting with interviewer about Times Square

Police officer is scene talking with man, takes his arm and walks away with him. Traffic going by in foreground. Narration by unseen Times Square resident.

Wide blurry shot exterior Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant

More vintage 42nd street clips - women looking in store windows, exterior Maxfield's storefront. Brown narrates.

Fade to black.

Times Square mid 1980's, littered streets, Metropole Cafe marquee

Neon sign "Girls Girls Dancing"

Triple X theater marquis, massage parlor store fronts with "low rates". with narration about the many massage parlors and x rated theaters that have cropped up in recent years

Robert Brown sitting in darkened theater alone with spotlight on him, reading an excerpt from transcripts, "the Hollow Boy"

Footage of a pretty young girl (and interview) - Cathy - a drug addict hanging out on the street, leaning against a pole, she slithers to the ground. She appears anxious, nervous, and strung out. Having a hard time lighting her cigarette, she speaks with unseen unknown interviewer.

Unseen interviewer asks Cathy: Do you have friends who died?

Cathy very nervously shaking her head yes and responds: Yeah. My sister just O.D.'d on drugs. She did six months in jail. She came out, she mainlined.
Cathy rubbing her face continues, "I really got to arrange things. It made me realize how much of a problem I really do have. I really have a problem I know. I'm sick. I'm a sick person, I'm not a bad person."

42nd Street at night in the 1970's POV moving vehicle. Triple x theater marquee - "All About Sex of All Nations" and others, people walking along 8th avenue and 42nd Street

African American film producer, Rudy Langlais talking with unseen unknown interviewer about Times Square in the '70's - the real struggle for control of NY streets between blacks and Italians, jews, and Irish.

Cutaway right into film clip from the movie, Shaft, opening scene
Langlais narrates.

More scenes from the film, Shaft.

Scene most likely from the TV documentary, "What's Going On" with A.J. DMane (Journalist) - shot in the middle of the street on Times Square with the Sony Jumbotron in bkgd.

Cutaway to a Black man, religious fanatic, wearing a white turban and preaching through a mic, camera pointed at him. Crowd gathered mostly Black, standing listening to him. Holding up a faded picture of Jesus Christ, he talks about re-birth and white power.

Cut to Mayor Ed Koch answering questions from unseen unknown interviewer. He supports the development of Times Square

Unknown Developer (Maybe Vincent Tese) standing with unknown interviewer over a large prototype 3-D model of the potential newly developed Times Square.

Scenes of old Broadway and 42nd street in the 1930's - theater marquee showing "The Boyfriend", two young ladies walking past a theater on a rainy day. Tthe song "A Lullaby on Broadway" plays.

Montage clips from Broadway and 42nd Street on a cloudy day '70's or '80's - Nathan's sign , theater marquee, bus rolling by, pretzel man, busy streets, gothic carving on old building.

Wide shot a deserted movie theater with a blank marquee

Pedestrians on 42nd Street 1980's, Harem Theater, signs for Video Rentals, Sex World 2002, Fashion...

Gill continuing discussion with interviewer about how the problem in Times Square is sociological ."..not a problem that can be solved by architecture alone..."and least of all by high rise office buildings...

Architectural rendering of the area from Broadway to 8th Avenue, as Burgee unseen discusses the plan.

Back with Brendan Gill and a montage of architectural detail on an old abandoned theater, a wide shot of an of the theater letters missing from the marquee

Close up sign on brick wall " Biltmore" zoom out on the abandoned theater.

Beautiful old carved statue of a dramatic woman in a cape against a tile backdrop

Pan top of the I. Miller Shoe Shop Building, enscription reads: "The Show Folks Shoe Shop Dedicated to Beauty in footwear". Above this inscription the name of the building is inscribed "The I Miller Building". (they made shoes for movie stars and chorus girls.)

Large red fire truck driving by

Exterior Marriott Marquis Hotel, front entrance at night, pan up and see exterior elevators coming down outside of building, interior lobby of hotel.

Proposed 3-D model of Times Square. Architect speaking with unseen interviewer

Artist on the street doing pencil portrait of Black man posing for him.

Back with the skinny white man with big mustache and smoking a cigarette standing on the street, he points and states he believes the whole area is going to be all offices, rich, and no more middle class.

Shot from behind, camera following foul mouthed guys walking down street in Times Square.

Photographer leaning over desk of architect Tese and taking his photo.

Montage of Manhattan at night to the tune of "Misty Blue" by Dorothy Moore, vintage clips mixed with new - Chrysler building lit up, traffic, pan buildings,neon signs (Camel Cigarettes) cop looking at ID, cute girls walking into building, life in NY ending with the scale model of the proposed redevelopmen.

credits over show graphic of lit up empire state building.

End reel.