Text on blank screen:
Once upon a time
in the future, in a part of what was once Britain ...
Commentator:
(voice
over, concurrent with the text, which
fades with the sound): Once upon a time in the future, in a small part of
what was once Britain …
As
the text on the screen fades away, whispering half-audible voices mutter
conspiracies:
Conspirator #1:
... the most subversive power in the land ...
Conspirator #2:
... subversive, must be ...
Conspirator #1:
... banned ...
Conspirator #2:
... must be banned, yes, the most
subversive power, yes ...
Conspirators:
... must be – Music!
Text on screen flashes and
slowly fades
MUSIC!
Ext, day
A
huge pile of guitars, keyboards, drums, every conceivable sort of musical
instrument, stacked up on a patch of waste land.
Close
up of a Machine pointing a gun-like appendage at the instruments, which burst
into flames. We see this bonfire from
several viewpoints.
Fade to blank screen
commentator:
(voice
over): So, music was banned.
Obviously, you can’t do that. It’s like banning hearing and breathing.
So after a while, they back off a bit. OK, some music can be allowed. Conforming
to defined guidelines, mechanically constructed in officially approved music
factories, by suitably trained mechanically qualified ‘resources’ – well OK, that can be allowed.
But don’t try it on your own, don’t try it at
home. Unauthorised music, human music, that
stuff’s well and truly banned!
Well, after another while – a very little
while – they saw that people might not like this either, might get a bit, let’s
say, fractious. So, it was decreed that
each year, on Midsummer Night, there will happen A Great Banquet!
Text on screen flashes and
slowly fades
A Great Banquet!!!
Fade
up shadowy images of huddled conspirators.
Voices over:
Conspirator #1:
… a Great Banquet, in a Great Banquet Hall –
Conspirator #2:
… everyone invited, things might even be permitted –
Conspirator #1:
… even their own music
–
Text on blank screen
THEIR OWN MUSIC?
Commentator:
Their own music? Allow them their own music? Human music?
For a few hours a year? Bad idea!
Ext, day. twilight
The
bonfire of the musical instruments.
Shadowy figures dart in and snatch more or less unscathed guitars,
drums, saxophones, gongs, dulcimers being salvaged and snuck away to secret
hiding places.
Fade to blank screen
Ext, night and day: split
screen
Dissolving
close-ups of people learning to play their stolen musical instruments; raiding
parties stealing stuff from shops, fuel depots, etc; people cultivating,
harvesting, cooking, eating their own food ...
Text on blank screen
Some years later
Commentator:
Very bad idea!
*
Text on blank screen
June twenty-fourth, this year
Crash
on soundtrack.
Commentator:
So, is this going to be the Last Midsummer Banquet?
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