"Very cute song! We have one line note as well as a couple of general questions:
1) We're only planning one interstitial per half-hour, right? Can we assume then that ""The Explorers Club"" will end up being the A story in 101, and that this will follow that?
2) Will you plan on casting a native Spanish-speaker for the role of Senor Tapir?"
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 and Sally Beaver.
SENOR TAPIR
WHO WANTS TO HEAR A SONG?
Kids
We do! We do!
SENOR TAPIR
Today we are going to sing a song about an EXPLORER. Do you know what an explorer does?
Elinor’s hand shoots up. She doesn’t wait to be called on.
ELINOR
An explorer follows their curiosity!
SALLY BEAVER
An explorer is brave.
SENOR TAPIR
You’re both right! Explorers are brave and their curiosity can lead them to lots of very INTERESTING places, like deep into the ocean.
ELINOR
We have an explorer’s club!
SENOR TAPIR
Then I think you’ll like this song!
Tapir starts to strum his guitar and sings. After a line or two, we transition to a simpler style of animation that describes what he is singing.
SENOR TAPIR (CONT’D)
When something you see,
Tickles your curiosity
When you have to know more
And questions pull you out the door
Let’s go! Let’s Explore!
2. EXT OCEAN -- DAY
We see a young Jacques
Cousteau
preparing to dive.
"Even more important, he shared the/ocean with you and me." -- This might be a little hard for kids to understand. We assume it's in reference to how Jacques Cousteau filmed underwater scenes for the general public, but that's a little hard to follow if you don't have any background knowledge on what he did. We suggest changing to "Even more important, he shared what he saw with you and me," or something along those lines.
SENOR TAPIR (CONT’D)
There was a young man named Jacques
Cousteau
,
Who wanted to know what nobody knows
Young Jacques loved to swim in the sea
So he followed his curiosity.
Jacques dives in! He swims down but soon runs out of air.
He wondered if anything lived far below
But that’s a place that’s hard to go
Wading on the surface, he has an idea!
So he had an idea to breathe under the water
So he could explore deeper and farther
We see Jacques again on his boat, this time with his prototype scuba gear, diving into the water.
Jacques found all sorts of life way down deep!
Fish and plants and coral reefs.
Jacques sees some cool underwater life. Under the water, among fishes and plants, he takes out his film camera.
He became an explorer, and swam under the sea
Even more important
he shared what he saw with you and me,
When something you see,
Tickles your curiosity
When you have to know more
And questions pull you out the door
Let’s go! Let’s Explore!
3. EXT PARK -- DAY
Kids
“That was great” / “We want another song”
SENOR TAPIR
That last song made me want to go swimming! Adios, and until next time,
amigos
!
Tapir tosses his guitar on the grass and dives under the water.
ELINOR'S TOWN
101 Interstitial MUSICAL MOMENTS/ JACQUES
COUSTEAU
Written by
JORGE CHAM AND DANIEL
WHITESON
POLISH: Jan 10, 2019
CONNECTION: EXPLORATION, THE EXPLORERS CLUB
CURRICULUM: Jacques
Cousteau
wanted to explore underwater, deeper than he could hold his breath, so he invented scuba gear.
SEP1
. Asking questions and defining problems.
SEP3
. Planning and carrying out investigations
SEP:
Design solutions (engineering)
SENOR TAPIR
Kids
ELINOR
SALLY BEAVER
(V.O.)
(O.S.)
(O.C.)
(CONT'D)
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