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''Images of the city at night. People hurry along with umbrellas.''

'''Black Hole''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on September 16, [[:Category:2001|2001]].

== Synopsis ==
This episode is segments excerpted from [[A Tour Of The City (Part 1)]],
in different order, for the first 27:40, followed by all of 
[[A Tour Of The City (Part 2)]]

'Images of the city at night&hellip;' Joe (using second person) tells
about landing in a plane, looking down on the city.  Pilots land the
plane safely despite engine failure.  Joe compares how the city looks
on the ground with how it looked from the air.<ref name=tour1>Originally aired in [[A Tour Of The City (Part 1)]]</ref>

0:30: Joe describes the tree-folk, the people of the law (who recite
laws that sound like parody <i>Leviticus</i>).<ref name=tour1 />

1:40: Joe recounts 'wrestling' matches, the first between a caveman
with a tree and a baron who weighs 2,695 stone (about 20 tons), the
second between a giant beetle and an Irish washerwoman.<ref name=tour1 />

5:30: Joe describes a military convoy on its way to the presidential
palace.  A presidential address follows.<ref name=tour1 />

7:20: Eva (Barbara Sohmers) tells Alex he talked in his sleep last
night.  She wants him to tell her how he feels, he's gone so much.<ref name=tour1 />

8:10: Voltgen, founder of Electricist (sp?) religion (Arthur Miller?),
one of the many sects that have sprung up in the city, talks to Alex,
a novice; he explains Electricism, ruminates on darkness and light.<ref name=tour1 />

10:40: Alex tells of walking through the city, wondering where he's
going.  Voltgen responds, tells him he has to give up on love.<ref name=tour1 />

13:20: Voltgen leads a service, which features a large filament,
culminates with electrical arcs.<ref name=tour1 />

16:00: Olga (Marilyn Casky), Alex's other wife, talks about Alex
spending time at Voltgen's temple, says he'll leave it as he's left
all the other sects he's joined.<ref name=tour1 />

16:40: A fellow (Vorst?) leaves an ominous message on their phone.
Olga's scared, Alex says it's nothing.  They argue.<ref name=tour1 />

19:00: The president tells of driving a few days ago, saw 2 children
making earthcakes near their hut, recalls a song from his childhood,
hums it for us.  We hear a horse, then thunder, then a dog, then a
helicopter, then a police siren.<ref name=tour1 />

20:20: 'Sometimes I sign out a chopper&hellip;' The president looks at
girls sunbathing on the roof.<ref name=tour1 />

21:10: Eva hears the helicopter, asks Alex what it's doing; it's
looking into their window.<ref name=tour1 />

23:20: The president calls on citizens to report strangers to the
authorities.<ref name=tour1 />

24:10: Alex describes physicians treating a woman (Eva?).<ref name=tour1 />

25:20: The president talks about burying oneself up to the neck to
stay warm during the winter.<ref name=tour1 />

26:20: 'Each of us has contemplated suicide&hellip;' Guy with
German-ish accent (Brother Theodore) talks about suicide, describes
different methods.<ref name=tour1 />

27:40: 'You're riding in a cab in the rain&hellip;' Joe tells the
damage the rain does.  The cabdriver (a parody East European accent)
says that a purification plant cleans the rainwater, takes Joe to the
bridge where people commit suicide by jumping into the unpurified
water, so acid bodies dissolve immediately.  People yell and jump.
The line is so long some give up waiting.  The crowd applauds good
dives.<ref name=tour2>Originally aired in [[A Tour Of The City (Part 2)]]</ref>

30:50: The president addresses the nation, recalls when we knew our
neighbors, talked to each other.<ref name=tour2 />

31:10: Vorst<ref>I take the interrogators' names from
[[Nightride]].</ref> interrogates Alex about his job (an electrical
engineer at the main power plant).<ref name=tour2 />

31:40: Joe describes the hydroelectric power plant.  We can hear the
sound of its operation in the background.<ref name=tour2 />

32:40: A warning light flashes; pipes and wires break; fires start.
Workers frantically attempt repairs.<ref name=tour2 />

33:50: Vorst asks Alex if he knows how much breakdowns at the plant
harm the city.<ref name=tour2 />

35:00: A distant woman's voice, barely audible, questions Alex.<ref name=tour12>
originally aired in [[A Tour Of The City (Part 1)]], also used in 
[[A Tour Of The City (Part 2)]]</ref>

35:50: Alex tells Voltgen that something is missing from his life;
Voltgen asks what he's missing as though it is palpable ('animal,
vegetable, or mineral&hellip; what color?').<ref name=tour2 /><ref>re-used in [[Nightride]]</ref>

38:00: The president recalls how wonderful it was to talk to the
people you encountered.<ref name=tour2 />

38:30: Vorst asks Alex if he has any siblings (no), then why not.
Vorst asks Alex if he would have had more children had he been his
parents.  Vorst asks Alex why he has no children.  Vorst tells Alex
that Eva and Olga work for his organization.<ref name=tour2 />

39:40: Alex converses with the distant voice of Eva, has a
conversation about making love.<ref name=tour12 />

40:20: Vorst and Funk talk about what a great dancer Eva is, that they
were out with her last night.  Alex tells them she can't walk; they
disagree.<ref name=tour2 />

41:00: Joe tells of a prisoner watching the rain from his cell.<ref
name=tour2 />

41:30: Vorst tells of flying over the presidential palace.<ref name=tour2 />

42:20: The president tells of being poor when he grew up, how his
mother made food from nothing: wood pulp omelettes, sparrow soup,
baked earthcakes.  The children would collect water by squeezing it
off ferns in the rain.  He calls upon citizens to take strength from
adversity, such as the blackout.<ref name=tour2 />

43:50: Vorst asks Alex what he enjoyed doing with his father.  Alex
says fishing.  Vorst makes fun of this.<ref name=tour2 />

44:30: Alex has a flashback of fishing with his father.  Alex wonders
when his mother can join them fishing.<ref name=tour2 />

46:20: Alex describes the accident that hurt his mother; it happened
when he stuck his mother's hat pin into an electrical socket, which
caused an explosion.  Vorst and Funk laugh at this.<ref name=tour2 />

47:30: Sound from the Electricism service sounds faintly, then the
washerwoman's bout with the beetle, then the fellow describing
suicideurs.<ref name=tour12 />

48:10: Joe says the streets have turned into canals; coffins have
floated out of the cemetery; a woman jumps from the bridge.<ref name=tour2 />

49:20: Alex tells of the funeral parlor in his neighborhood; he walks
in.  A background voice (Vorst?) asks children's questions, 'Where
does the rain come from?&hellip; Why do I have to go to my room?  If I
don't like it, why do I have to eat it?  Are we there yet?'.  Alex
describes the service in the parlor.  The minister sounds like he's
describing Alex; Alex notices the similarity.  Alex goes up to the
coffin, sees it's empty, so gets in, lies down; he notices his lips
are sewn shut, his face heavily rouged.  They close the coffin, carry
it out; he hears the sound of children playing in an adjoining
lot.<ref name=tour2 />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:95%; overflow:auto;">
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">

* Religious orders
* Bizarre boxing match
* A presidential address
* Interrogation of man regarding an explosion
* Dialog with the man's wife
* Lectures on Electrocism and Naturism
* Actor's monologue on suicide techniques
* Taxicab at suicide bridge
* "Something is missing from my life" discussion
* The president talks about eating nothing as a child, reads the children's questions monologue ("if I don't like it, why do I have to eat it?") 
* A man attends his own funeral.
</div></div>

== Music ==
{{Music-Stub}}
{{Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ (Steve Reich)}} [Intro]
{{Brüder Des Schattens (Popol Vuh)}} [13:10]
{{Remote Viewing (Tangerine Dream)}} [17:08]
{{Six Marimbas (Steve Reich)}} [23:19]
{{Lizard Point (Brian Eno)}} [34:42]
{{Softly, As I Leave You (Henry Mancini And His Orchestra)}} [49:28] {{Unidentified|id=organ music @49:53}}
{{More Colours (Eberhard Weber)}} [52:55]

== Shared material ==
*[[Nightride]]
*[[A Tour Of The City (Part 1)|A Tour of the City]]

== Additional credits ==
* Directed by [[Arthur Miller]]
* Mixed by Jim Anderson
* Remixed by Ray Guarna

From the broadcast, 'You have been listening to Joe Frank, "The other
side".  This program was called "Black hole" - directed by Arthur
Miller, mixed by Jim Anderson, remixed by Ray Guarna.  The performers
were Alan Hunter, Marilyn Casky, Barbara Sohmers, Arthur Miller,
Brother Theodore, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Clark Gordon, Richard
Bauer, Tim Jerome; written, produced, and narrated by Joe Frank'

==Footnotes==

[[Category:Scripted_Actors]]
[[Category:Alan Hunter]] 
[[Category:Barbara Sohmers]] 
[[Category:Marilyn Casky]] 
[[Category:Arthur Miller]] 
[[Category:Brother Theodore]] 
[[Category:Mark Hammer]] 
[[Category:Joseph Palmieri]] 
[[Category:Clark Gordon]] 
[[Category:Larry Block]] 
[[Category:Richard Bauer]] 
[[Category:Tim Jerome]]
[[Category:Ray Guarna]]
[[Category:2001]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:The Other Side]]	[[Category:Show_by_date|20010916]]	{{Airdate|airdate=2001-09-16}}
{{Series|series=The Other Side}}
{{Cast|cast=[[Alan Hunter]], [[Barbara Sohmers]], [[Marilyn Casky]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[Brother Theodore]], [[Mark Hammer]], [[Joseph Palmieri]], [[Clark Gordon]], [[Larry Block]], [[Richard Bauer]], [[Tim Jerome]], Joe Frank}}