1. EXT. MRs. Dromedary’s HOUSE (FRONT DOOR) - LATE AFTERNOOn ANGLE ON Elinor’s finger pressing a doorbell. <SFX: DING DONG> A front door swings open to reveal MRS. DROMEDARY, who looks delightfully surprised. ELINOR, OLIVE, ARI and S e Ñ or TAPIR stand on the front porch as a choir, each with a giant smile and wearing a sun hat and sunglasses. Señor Tapir strums his guitar with a flourish, pauses, then starts to play his guitar to accompany their summer song. SUNNY SUMMER SONG ELINOR, OLIVE, ARI, S eñor TAPIR SR . TAPIR: We’re here to sing a sunny summer song KIDS: A sunny summer song, A summer sing-along SR . TAPIR: We’re here to sing a sunny summer song ALL: To celebrate the summer sunshine! ELINOR: We jump really high. Elinor jumps high. ARI: We flap and fly. Ari flutters up in the air for a moment. OLIVE: We try to touch the sky Olive raises her trunk and arms up to the sky. SR TAPIR: And now you know why Elinor, Olive and Ari spreads their arms wide like shining suns. ALL: To celebrate the summer sunshine! The choir holds their last note while Mrs. Dromedary <SFX: CLAPS> in celebration. Señor Tapir and the kids take a bow. Elinor Happy summer , Mrs. Dromedary! Elinor, Olive and Ari wave goodbye, and Mrs. Dromedary waves goodbye as she closes her door . The gang hops off Mrs. Dromedary’s porch. SeÑOR TAPIR That was great , amigos ! Th ank you for joining me for this summer sing - a - long. Elinor You’re welcome, Señor Tapir. I t’s sooo fun to sing for all our neighbors. I LOVE to sing . Olive Me too . Ari Me three. I love to sing (he pauses) and dance. Ari does a little shimmy and back flip and then spreads his arms like a shining sun. They all <SFX: GIGGLE>. SeÑOR TAPIR Yup . T here’s no better way to spread good cheer than to sing a happy song. Elinor Singing makes me happy. Olive Me too. Let’s go to Mrs. Beaver’s house and make her happy! seÑOR TAPIR Great idea. Follow me, amigos . S eñor Tapir , Elinor and Olive hop OS , and Ari follows them while doing a funny dance move. Crossfade to: 2. EXT. PORCH song MONTAGE (MRS. BEAVER’S FRONT DOOR, MR. RACCOON’s bakery, MZ . MOLE’s Front Door, The Ranger Station) -- MOMENTS LATER Note: This is a quick montage so that we hear the choir singing the summer song once through, while we see a montage of the choir visiting various neighbors. The sky is gradually getting darker as they go from house to house. ANGLE ON: a front door opening to reveal MRS. BEAVER who suddenly grins widely. A wide shot shows Mrs. Beaver enjoying the carolers’ music. ElinoR, OLIVE, ARI, SEÑOR TAPIR SEÑOR TAPIR: We’re here to sing a sunny summer song KIDS: A sunny summer song, A summer sing-along ANGLE ON: the bakery’s front door opening to reveal MR. RACCOON who grins widely. A wide shot shows the carolers on the sidewalk in front of Mr. Raccoon’s bakery as he enjoys the song. A couple Animal Town residents, MR. BUFFALO and MR. ANTELOPE, stand on the sidewalk holding their recently purchased baked goods and smile as they listen. SEÑOR TAPIR: We’re here to sing a sunny summer song ALL: To celebrate the summer sunshine! ANGLE ON: a front door in the ground, which opens to reveal MZ . MOLE. She pops her head up out of the ground to see Elinor’s feet as they jump high and back down. Mz . Mole watches the choir as they sing. ELINOR: We jump really high. ARI: We flap and fly. OLIVE: We try to touch the sky ANGLE ON: the door of the ranger station swinging open to reveal DEPUTY JACK MOUSE and MS GEE RAFFE (her body and tall neck but her head is OS). Jack Mouse looks grumpy but then (after a beat) gives a very tiny but still noticeable smile. SEÑOR TAPIR: And now you know why ALL: To celebrate the summer sunshine! END MONTAGE Crossfade to: 3. EXT. PATH - EVENING Señor Tapir walks with Elinor, Olive and Ari along a path back to Ari’s house. Ari’s house is visible in the distance. Elinor Th is summer sing - a - long is the BEST. Let’s KEEP SINGING! SEÑOR TAPIR I’d love to keep singing, (looking up) but the sky is getting pretty dark . I think it’s about time to go home. The sun is now very low in the sky, almost about to sink below the horizon. We hear a <SFX: HOWL WALLA> from off screen. Elinor ( her ears perk up and turn toward the sound) What was that? ARI Oh, that’s Mr. Dog. He lives next door... Wait, we didn’t sing for Mr. Dog. OLIVE Mr. Dog loves music. We have to sing for him. SeÑOR TAPIR I guess we have time for one more magnificent song! Let’s go sing! The kids watch Señor Tapir strum his guitar with a flourish . Close on his hand as it strums some dramatic chords. As a transition to the next scene, the circle of the guitar’s sound hole dissolves to reveal the circle of the moon. 4. EXT. MR. DOG’S HOUSE - NIGHT ANGLE ON: The moon shining in the sky. Suddenly Mr. Dog’s mouth pops into the frame to <WALLA HOWL>. MR. DOG sits in a chair on his front porch, howling up at the moon. Elinor leads her friends up to the porch. They are still wearing their sun hats and sunglasses, even though Mr. Dog’s front porch is dark. Mr. Dog <WALLA HOWLS> and turns to his friends. MR. DOG Hellooooo there. To what do I owe the pleasure? Elinor We’re here to sing you a summer song , Mr. Dog. Mr. DOG Well now, I love music. Let me turn on my porch light so I can see you better . Mr. Dog flicks a light switch, and the porch light turns on (which is directly over the carolers). The carolers are standing very close together on the narrow porch. Señor Tapir strums his guitar with a flourish, pauses, then starts to play his guitar to accompany their summer song. Mr. Dog sits back to enjoy the music. Suddenly a single moth flutters in and lands on Señor Tapir’s right ear. ElinoR Señor Tapir? There’s a, (pausing for a better look) what is that? It’s, oh it’s a MOTH . Right by your ear . SEÑOR TAPIR ( intrigued ) Really? ( he lifts his hand toward the wrong ear) Where is it? Here? Elinor ( giggling ) No, by the other ear . SEÑOR TAPIR Here? He lifts his right hand toward his right ear, but the moth flutters up and lands on his hat instead. OLIVE Now it’s on your hat. ( two more moths flutter in on his hat). Uh, now there are three moths on your hat. SEÑOR TAPIR Well, a few moths can’t stop us from making magnificent music, right? Let’s sing. Señor Tapir strums his guitar with a flourish. He begins to play the guitar to accompany the song. SEÑOR TAPIR (CONT’D) We’re here to sing a, thp , a, thwpp thwppp ...” ( several new moths fly right by his mouth) Sorry, let’s try that again. Señor Tapir strums his guitar and takes a deep breath, but just then a whole bunch of moths fly around his face and he pauses to blow them away from his mouth and nose. Elinor, Olive and Ari <SFX: LAUGH> as bunches of moths flutter around their faces too. <SFX: MOTH WINGS FLUTTERING> ElINOR Wow, that’s a lot of moths! A group of moths fly near the porch light and around Mr. Dog too. SEÑOR TAPIR Si. But moths can’t stop us from making, (blowing and brushing moths away from his face) magnificent (blowing and brushing moths away) OLIVE ( laughing ) Uhhaaaaack ! Olive uses her trunk to brush away some moths from her face. Elinor turns her head and flaps her ears to try and duck away from the moths flying around her face. ARi Aaaa ! Ari does hilarious karate-looking moves and spin moves to evade the moths around him, to no avail. We see a wide shot of the porch with dozens and dozens of moths around the choir and Mr. Dog, just fluttering around, but the densest bunch of moths are near the porch light. Everyone is swatting and ducking the moths, and Ari is still doing his karate moves. SEÑOR TAPIR Okay, maybe moths can stop us from making magnificent music. It ’s very hard to concentrate. Señor Tapir looks at the kids, who are still awkwardly dealing with moths. Mr. Dog is trying to blow moths away from his face too. Elinor Is it okay if we come back another time , Mr. Dog ? MR. DOG ( laughing as he blows at the moths and swats moths away from his face) Sur e, kids . I look forward to it. SEÑOR TAPIR Hasta luego , Mr. Dog ! Elinor, Olive, Ari and Señor Tapir hurry OS. 5. EXT. PATH – NIGHT The kids and Señor Tapir walk back to Ari’s house. They are still wearing their hats but have taken off their sunglasses. The moon is bright enough to light up their path. Elinor Why are there so many moths around Mr. Dog’s porch? Ari I dunno . We didn’t see any moths at any of the other houses. Olive Sounds like a mystery, dun, dun, dunnnn , a moth mystery. Elinor Wait, do you know why there were so many moths, Señor Tapir? SeÑOR TAPIR Well, I’m more of a music lover than a moth expert , Elinor. But I think if anyone can solve a moth mystery, it’s you three amigos . ELINOR Yeah, WE can figure it out! SeÑOR TAPIR Let’s think. What was different about Mr. Dog’s house compared to the other houses where we sang ? Ari ( thinking ) I know. It was night time when we were at Mr. Dog’s porch but it was daytime at the other places. TILT UP to a THOUGHT BUBBLE . W e see the kids and Señor Tapir standing on Mr. Dog’s porch (at night), compared to the kids and Señor Tapir standing on Mrs. Beaver’s porch (during the day). TILT DOWN Elinor Maybe moths only come out at night? Olive ( excited ) Oh yeah. I read about that in my Nature Book. Most moths only come out at nigh t. After the sun goes down. ELINOR That’s SO interesting. ( looking around). It’s nighttime now. Let’s see if there are any moths around here . The trio and Señor Tapir all stand still and look around. Ari flutters up into the night sky and looks around from up high. Ari flies OS. Ari hang s upside down from a tree branch, looking around intently. He leaves the tree branch and flutters OS. Ari flutter s above Señor Tapir’s hat to inspect it. No moths there either. Ari flutters down to land next to his friends. Ari ( playfully serious) I MOTH tell you something very important... SEÑOR TAPIR Ha. What is it, Ari? Ari I didn’t see any moths . No moths anywhere. Olive I don’t see any moths, either. ElinOR Huh, there must be something special about Mr. Dog’s porch. Señor Tapir, have you ever seen that many moths before? SEÑOR TAPIR ( looking wistfully to the sky ) You know, I’ve sat under the stars and played music on many moonlit night s, b ut I’ve never seen that many moths. Ari Maybe it’s because Mr. Dog was howling on his porch. Elinor Right. Maybe moths like howling. ( excited ) Let’s try it! The kids and Señor Tapir all look up at the moon and howl. EliNOR, OLIVE, ARI, SEÑOR TAPIR “ Arwwwwoooooooooooo ! Arw Arwwwoooohhhhooooo !” The kids and Señor Tapir stand still and look around intently. No moths show up. Elinor No moths. That’s not it either. Hmmm . SEÑOR TAPIR Well, a good howl is never wasted. Olive Maybe we’ll find moths at Ari’s house. ArI Yeah, let’s try my front porch. Wipe to Ext. Ari’s front porch - night The kids and Señor Tapir hop up to Ari’s front door. The porch light is off. They all look around for a moment. Olive No moths here . Elinor Hmm. So why were there so many moths around Mr. Dog’s porch? Just then, Mr. Bat peeks his head outside the front door. Mr. Bat Oh, hi kids. Hello, Sr. Tapir. It’s pretty dark outside. Here, l e t me turn on this light. Mr. Bat goes back inside and flicks on the porch light . After a moment, a few moths flutter up toward the porch light. Elinor ( pointing at the porch light) Look! Moths! SeÑOR TAPIR Si! W hat do you think happened? The kids and Señor Tapir look at the light, while more moths flutter up toward the porch light. <SFX: MOTH WINGS FLUTTERING> Ari ( flying up a bit toward the porch light because he’s excited) My dad turned on the porch light (pointing at the light) and then the moths showed up. Olive And... TILT UP to a thought bubble as she remembers Mr. Dog turning on his porch light. TILT DOWN Olive (CONT’D) I remember Mr. Dog turned on his porch light when the moths showed up. Elinor Right. Maybe moths like porch light s . ( looking at her friends) We need MORE observations! W hat happen s if we turned off the light ? Ari turns the porch light off, so the kids and Señor Tapir are in the darkness. The moths flutter away. ari Look , the moths are flying away. Elinor Okay Ari, now turn the light back on. The light switches on and the kids and Señor Tapir watch and wait in anticipation. A moth flutters in, then another. Olive ( pointing ) The moths are flying back! SEÑOR TAPIR Fantástico ! Elinor, Olive and Ari watch the moths with wonder. <WALLA> ELINOR Every time we turn on the light... OLIVE ( excited , because they are solving the mystery) ...the moths show up. Elinor And e very time we turn off the light... ari (turning off the light) They fly away. Elinor It’s a pattern! Let’s do an experiment to try out our idea. Olive, can I borrow your flashlight? Olive takes a fla shlight from her bag and gives it to Elinor . ElINOR (CONT’D) I’m gonna turn on the flashlight. She shines the flashlight’s beam of light up toward her face. Elinor (CONT’D) Now, w hat do you think will happen? Ari You’re going to do shadow puppets? ELINOR (giggling) No. What will happen with the moths , Ari? Ari Oh, right. ( thinking , excited) Moths will show up. Just then, moths fly right into the beam of the flashlight in front of Elinor’s face . Elinor Look! There they are! They showed up around the flashlight! SeÑOR TAPIr Ha HA! You did it! You three amigos solved the, (he strums the dun dun dun on his guitar) (beat) moth mystery. Mr. Bat comes out onto the porch. Mr. Bat What moth mystery? ElinoR We wanted to know why so many moths were flying around Mr. Dog’s porch. Olive And we figured it out! Moths only come out at night. ari ( excited ) And when someone turns on a light... Ari jumps off the porch into the darkness by his house. Ari (CONT’D) ( whispering to Elinor) Hey Elinor, turn on the flashlight. Elinor turns on her flashlight and shines it on Ari. Ari lifts up his hands as moths gather again around the beam of light . Ari (CONT’D) Moths fly into the light! The kids WALLA <LAUGH> <WOW> as Ari hops back to the porch. Mr. Bat Good thinking, kids! ( to everyone) Moths ARE attracted to light s , which means they like to fly to wards them. Some scientists think the moths get confused and think the light s are the moon or the sun, but no one really knows why. Olive It really IS a moth mystery ! Elinor Mr. Bat, would you turn off the light ? Mr. Bat Good idea, Elinor. We should try not to confuse animals in nature any more than we have to. Sr. Tapir Well, now that we know why moths like to come to porches, I think we can give singing to Mr. Dog another try. Elinor Yeah, c ’mon , let’s go sing for Mr. Dog! DisSOLVE TO: 10. EXT. MR. DOG’S HOUSE (FRONT PORCH) – NIGHT ANGLE ON Elinor’s finger pressing Mr. Dog’s doorbell. <SFX: DING DONG> The kids and Señor Tapir wait patiently on the porch, wearing their sun hats, underneath the bright porch light. Lots of moths flutter around them. Mr. Dog opens his front door. Mr. Dog ( smiling ) Oh, hello! I’m s o glad you’re back. Elinor Mr. Dog, would you turn off your porch light? Ari We figured out that the moths like the light . Olive So if we turn it off, there won’t be as many flying around. Mr . Dog turns off the porch light, so that the choir is standing in the dark, and the moths flutter away toward the moonlight. SeÑOR TAPIR Adios, moth amigos . Elinor Hit it, Sr. Tapir! Señor Tapir strums his guitar with a flourish, then starts to play the song. SUNNY SUMMER SONG ELINOR, OLIVE, ARI, SEÑOR TAPIR SEÑOR TAPIR: We’re here to sing a sunny summer song KIDS: A sunny summer song, A summer sing-along SEÑOR TAPIR: We’re here to sing a sunny summer song ALL: To celebrate the summer sunshine! ELINOR: We jump really high. Elinor jumps high. ARI: We flap and fly. Ari flutters up in the air for a moment. OLIVE: We try to touch the sky Olive raises her trunk and arms to the sky. SEÑOR TAPIR: And now you know why ALL: To celebrate the summer sunshine! Mr. Dog claps and tilts his head back to <WALLA HOWL>. Señor Tapir and the kids all join in, howling at the moon. Elinor, OLIVE, ARI, SEÑOR TAPIR (CONT’D) Arwwwwwoooooooooooooooooo ! As they all <SFX: LAUGH>, a moth flies in front of the moon and then toward the camera until it fills the screen. BLACK OUT Segment 2. 1. Ext. garden -- summer Day Elinor, Ari, Olive and Mz . Mole are walking through the flower garden. Mz . Mole has a flower in her hair. A hummingbird clearwing moth flies past Elinor, Aril, Olive and Mz . Mole and over to a bunch of flowers growing nearby. There is an audible <SFX: Hum> as it passes by. Ari Whoah , what is that? Angle On - the moth hovers <SFX: Hum> over the flowers just like a hummingbird as it dips its proboscis to drink nectar. ElinOR Is that a... hummingbird? Mz . Mole It looks a lot like a hummingbird, but it's not a bird at all. OLIVE Is it a butterfly? MZ . MOLE It's a kind of insect, but not a butterfly. It's a moth! Ari Wow! How can you tell? It's moving so fast. MZ . MOLE I have a picture of it in this book, all about moths! Mz . Mole takes out her storybook and opens the front cover. CLOSE ON the storybook which shows the hummingbird clearwing moth. 2. THE STORYBOOK The storybook comes to life in a popup book style of animation. Close-up on the hummingbird clearwing moth. Mz . MOLE (V.O.) Take a closer look at this moth, what do you see? Olive (V.O.) It has cute little fuzzy antennae. The clearwing moth flies away and the page turns to reveal three moths side by side - a luna moth (green), a rosy maple moth (pink and yellow), and an Io moth (yellow with two large eye spots). NOTE FOR DESIGN use as many examples as appropriate. The moths are still. MZ . MOLE (V.O.) Moths come in lots of dazzling colors and sizes. The page turns to reveal a moth that looks just like a brown/dead leaf on a pile of dead brown leaves. Mz . MOLE (V.O.) See this moth? Ari (V.O.) Which moth, Mz . Mole? I just see some leaves. Suddenly, one of the "leaves" begins to flap its wings, then flies away. Elinor (V.O.) What?! That moth looked just like a leaf! MZ . MOLE (V.O.) And how about this one? The page turns to reveal an atlas moth. Mz . Mole's hand comes into frame and the atlas moth climbs onto it. The moth is so large that its wingspan is wider than the hand. Mz . MOLE (V.O.) This is an atlas moth, the largest moth in the world. ELINOR (V.O.) Whoah , that's huge. The moth flaps its wings and flies away. We watch it fly through the sky. Mz . MOLE (v.O.) The atlas moth is so big, you might think it's a bird. Elinor Wow, moths can be as big as birds and as pretty as leaves. 3. EXT. FLOWER GARDEN -- SUMMER Day We watch the book close. Back in the flower garden, Elinor, Ari, Olive and Mz . Mole look around for the hummingbird clearwing moth. MZ . MOLE Now where did that beautiful moth go? Olive There it is! We see the moth is drinking from the flower in Mz . Mole's hair. The children all <SFX: Laugh> THE END .

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY EWW 168 A Moth Mystery By Laura Sams and Robert Sams Elinor’s Question: Why are there so many moths around Mr. Dog’s porch? Logline: The kids go summer caroling around the neighborhood, but when they get to Mr. Dog’s porch, there are so many moths flying around that they can’t finish singing their summer song. Curriculum Goals: ES2: Understand that plants and animals (including humans) can change their environment (Elinor and her friends realize they can turn off Mr. Dog’s porch light and the moths won’t gather around). SEP 4: Analyzing and Interpreting Data c: Record observations to describe patterns and/or relationships in the natural and designed world(s) in order to answer scientific questions and solve problems. (Elinor and her friends identify the pattern of moth behavior,that they cluster around lights, and solve the problem by turning off the porch light). FIRST DRAFT: March 23, 2020 SECOND DRAFT: April 06, 2020 POLISH DRAFT: April 24, 2020 FINAL DRAFT: All Ari Elinor ELINOR, OLIVE, ARI, MARTH ELINOR, OLIVE, ARI, SEÑOR TAPIR Mr. Bat Mr. Dog MRS. DROMEDARY Olive SEÑOR TAPIR ELINOR/OLIVE/ARI Sen Sr. Tapir (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) INT EXT I/E EXTERIOR - MR MOOSE'S HOUSE (FRONT DOOR) MR. DOG'S HOUSE SEGMENT 2. DAY NIGHT AFTERNOON MORNING EVENING LATER MOMENTS LATER CONTINUOUS THE NEXT DAY MAGIC HOUR DAWN DUSK SAME SAME TIME LATE AFTERNOON CUT TO: FADE IN: FADE OUT. FADE TO: DISSOLVE TO: BACK TO: MATCH CUT TO: JUMP CUT TO: FADE TO BLACK. SMASH CUT TO: CUT TO BLACK. TIME CUT: Order Page Intro Location Time Color Scene #