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PRODUCER: Brian Grazer PRODUCER: Ron Howard PRODUCER: Eric Fellner PRODUCER: Tim Bevan EXECUTIVE PRODUCE! Todd Hallowell FROST/NIXON by Peter Morgan WHITE: 06/26/07 FULL BLUE: 08/14/07 PINK REVS: 08/22/07 YELLOW REVS: 08/24/07 This material is the property of Universal City Studios LLLP and is intended and restricted solely for studio use by studio personnel. Distribution or disclosure of the material to unauthorized persons is prohibited. The sale, copying or reproduction of this material in any form is also prohibited. FROST/NIXON (Yellow Revs) - 8/24/07 1. THE HISS AND CRACKLE OF INTERFERENCE 1 as_a TV receiver is being tuned. Presently, it finds a local Washington Dc nightly news programme. It’s 17th June 1972. An ANCHOR speaks to camera... ANCHOR :+:we're getting reports of a break-in tonight at the Democrat National Comittee Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel here in Washington.. A BLINDING WHITE LIGHT 2 TV lights are switched on. We're in a television studio, (though we only see fragments/details). SOUND TECHNICIANS and ELECTRICIANS go about their business rigging lights. Setting-up microphones. Running cables. ARCHIVE TELEVISION NEWS FOOTAGE 3 A local TV station reporter stands outside the Washington DC courthouse REPORTER ++I am standing outside the federal courthouse where the trial started today of the seven burglars caught breaking into the Democrat National Party Headquarters.. BACK IN THE TELEVISION STUDIO 4 CAMBRAMEN put on headphones, do final checks with their cameras. ELECTRICIANS and CARPENTERS put finishing touches to the set.. At the centre of attention, a simple desk. ARCHIVE TELEVISION NEWS FOOTAGE 5 A Network news programme. A major ANCHOR reads the news.. FROST/NIXON (Yellow Revs) - 8/24/07 ANCHOR ++:more dramatic developments at the Ervin Committee hearings today, as White House Counsel John Dean gave evidence implicating the President's direct knowledge of involvement in the Watergate cover-up. EXT. PRODUCTION GALLERY/TRUCK - NIGHT 6 The glow of lights. The DIRECTOR, EDITOR and PRODUCTION TEAM in the production truck make final checks. ARCHIVE TELEVISION NEWS FOOTAGE A Network ANCHOR continues to tell the Watergate story.. ANCHOR s+.with the arrest of key Nixon aides, John Haldeman and Bob Ehrlichman, and White House special Counsel Charles Colson, it now seems any last minute attempts to save the Presidency have failed... Images of EHRLICHMAN, COLSON and HALDEMAN fill the screen. INT. OVAL OFFICE - WHITE HOUSE - NIGHT A TECHNICIAN fixes a microphone on a desk. Above the desk, the Presidential seal.. We realise now we're not in a television studio, but in the Oval office of the White House.. ARCHIVE TELEVISION NEWS FOOTAGE - (1974) A news ANCHOR speaks to camera.. ANCHOR The time is coming up to nine o'clock. We are expecting the President to address the nation any moment now, to announce his resignation..

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