1. EXT PARK -- DAY
Open on Senor Tapir, with his guitar, in the park of Animal Town, sitting on a tree stump at the edge of a pond. A group of kids sit at his feet, including Elinor.
SENOR TAPIR
Hola
amigos
, today let’s sing a
soo
...
Senor Tapir suddenly pauses to hold his elbow up to his nose, which twitches.
SenOR TAPIR (CONT’D)
A
soooooohhhh
(pauses)
He puts his elbow down.
SeNOR TAPIR (CONT’D)
Thought I was going to sneeze. A
saaaaachoooo
!
Senor Tapir sneezes right onto his guitar. He pulls out a bandana and wipes off his guitar.
Elinor
Salud
!
senor TAPIR
(chuckling) Whoops, that sneeze snuck up on me. Let’s sing about a scientist who wondered about sneezes.
Senor Tapir starts to sing. After a line or two, we transition to a simpler style of animation that describes what he is singing.
SENOR TAPIR (CONT’D)
Have you ever wondered just what happens to your sneeze,
When your sneeze
flies
from your mouth into the breeze?
2. INT
MIT
LAB. -- DAY
Lydia
Bourouiba
(a Lynx -- she is from France and likes to rock climb, and the lynx is a mountainous mammal in France) crosses her arms and thinks, when a think bubble appears above her head, showing someone sneeze.
SENOR TAPIR (CONT’D)
Well Lydia
Bourouiba
is a scientist who said,
“I wonder just how far a sneeze will spread.”
An elephant sneezes and the spray goes up, down and swirls around.
Oh where, oh where
Do your sneezy sneezes go?
Lydia
Bourouiba
want
ed
to know,
Do they go up?
Do they go down?
Do they spray far and swirl all around?
Someone’s nose is tickled with a little rod, and the person sneezes in profile, in slow motion. Cut to a wide where we see a camera filming the sneeze. Then zoom in to look through the viewfinder at the slow motion sneeze. The sneeze has different trajectories in different colors, and some go up, some go down and some become a cloud (like the reference photo from her studies).
She tickled lots of noses so they’d sneeze right away,
And she
took special pictures of
every spray.
She watched each sneeze in super slow motion,
So she could have pictures of funny sneeze explosions!
We see a grid of six
elephant
s, all sneezing at the same time.
Oh where, oh where
Do your sneezy sneezes go?
Lydia
Bourouiba
want
ed
to know
.
She found they
went
up
.
She found they
went
down
,
We see an elephant on one side of a room, and when the elephant sneezes, the sneeze travels all the way to the other side of the room!
And they
spray
really
far
when they
swirl all around
!
An elephant
stands next to Lydia in her lab, and
the elephant
sneezes while she smiles.
Whenever you sneeze,
Think of the scientist who,
Wondered what happens when you say
Aaaaachoo
!
3. EXT PARK -- DAY
Senor Tapir finishes singing the song in front of the kids.
SeNOR TAPIR (CONT’D)
When you say,
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-chooo
!
ELINOR
That was a really fun
soo
(she quickly holds her elbow up to her nose)
aaachoo
!
SENOR TAPIR
Salud
!
The kids <giggle>.
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ELINOR WONDERS WHY
117 interstitial: senor tapir
Written by
LAURA
SAMS
FOLLOWS:
“THESE SNEEZES”
CURRICULUM: Scientist Lydia
Bourouiba
followed her curiosity to find out where sneeze droplets go after someone sneezes.
LS2
- Understand that animals have different body parts that are used in different ways to meet their needs, and that plants have different parts that help them survive and grow: a) Identify body parts of animals and their function.
FIRST DRAFT: 06-05-19
SECOND DRAFT: 06-25-19
SENOR TAPIR
Kids
ELINOR
SALLY BEAVER
Silas
(V.O.)
(O.S.)
(O.C.)
(CONT'D)
(SUBTITLE)
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EXT
I/E
1
FOLLOWS: "THE AMAZING EXPANDABLE CLUBHOUSE"
EXT PARK -- DAY
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AFTERNOON
MORNING
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MOMENTS LATER
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