Summer Notes (Remix)
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| Series | |
|---|---|
| The Other Side | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| January 2, 2000 | |
| Cast | |
| Tim Jerome, Beth Dixon, Arthur Miller, Lester Nafzger, Rosemary Foley, Paul Mantell, Fran Dorn, David St. James, Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| 58 minutes | |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by: | Lover Man |
| Followed by: | Mercy |
I notice a metal sheet here, lying beside you..
Summer Notes (Remix) is a program Joe Frank aired as part of the series The Other Side. It is an edited version of Summer Notes, which aired in 1979.
A segment from this program was turned into an animated short film.
Synopsis
Joe interviews a guy at the beach who has a reflector screen and a gun (Arthur Miller).
5:20: Dirk (Tim Jerome) and Diana (Beth Dixon) go sailing. (Dirk learnt in New Delhi.) They collide with a large ship.
11:40: Joe interviews a couple about picnics. (I think the man is Arthur Miller.)
16:34: Diana and Dirk go hiking, eat some wild berries, get sick to their stomachs.
20:40: A guy in a crowded space tries to draw attention to himself desperately, says he's going to kill a little girl and serve sandwiches made from her meat.
27:00: Actors declaim random bits of Shakespeare and fake Shakespeare. Some comes from Titus Andronicus.
27:40: A critic (David St. James?), addressing Joe, laments the separation of classical drama from normal life, is happy drama's being performed in public; the fake Shakespeare continues in the background.
30:50: The guy desperate for attention is back, talking to a guy with a Yiddish accent who was jailed in his former country.
33:20: The fake Shakespeare is back, the critic and Joe, too.
35:10: The desperate guy and the guy with the accent are back; the guy with the accent worries about his heart.
36:30: Diana & Dirk make a campfire which, predictably, starts a forest fire.
40:50: 4 people promote their areas: a guy in Woodstock[1] promotes Woodstock 2; others promote the Cook Islands, Montauk, and Georgia.
45:50: Diana & Dirk are at home, dealing with mundane affairs, such as buying the soap, fixing the air conditioner, disagreeing about what they're watching on television. They sound not in love.
54:20: The guy on the beach with the reflector and gun is back, shows Joe more of his stuff.
- Interview with an armed guy (Arthur Miller) on the beach.
- Scenes in which a sugary couple encounters disaster, interspersed by a panel discussion.
- A sailing trip that ends lost in the fog.
- The history of picnics and picnic etiquette. A hike that ends in berry picking and poisoning.
- A man in the street tries to get attention - offers little girl sandwiches and sings "you are my sunshine."
- Outdoor theater, performing scenes according to the time of day.
- The street performer fights with passers-by, threatens them, then apologizes.
- The history of theater.
- The couple builds a fire and catches the forest.
- Joe interviews people about resort communities - Woodstock, a nature resort in the Cook islands, and some sort of retirement community.
- The couple argues, watches multiple televisions.
- Animated monologue describing scenes of summer: a man on the subway shouts, "I'm not dead"; an idyllic neighboring family man goes mad; Houdini's act as the ultimate form of protest; a blind man carries a cripple on his back; shooting people at the beach as art; Joe repeats lines from the street performer and the acted dialog; "the sun shines from one place in the sky."
- Beach technology: radios, beach scanners, seismographs.
Music
- "Prix Choc" - Etienne De Crécy (from Super Discount, 1996) | YouTube [1:42]
- "Drumming (Pt 2)" - Steve Reich (from Drumming, 1974) | YouTube [20:00]
Miscellanea
- This version is not available at joefrank.com, where the named program is identical to the original with a brief spoken introduction.
Footnotes
- ↑ Mr Nafzger lives in Woodstock.