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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)]]. It was originally broadcast on September 16, [[2001]]. | '''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 == | == 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…' 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…' 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…' 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…' 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… 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?… 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:100%; overflow:auto;"> | |||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
* Religious orders | * Religious orders | ||
* Bizarre boxing match | * Bizarre boxing match | ||
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* 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?") | * 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. | * 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:Scripted_Actors]] | ||
[[Category:Alan Hunter]] | [[Category:Alan Hunter]] | ||
[[Category:Marilyn Casky]] | [[Category:Barbara Sohmers]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Marilyn Casky]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Arthur Miller]] | ||
[[Category:Richard | [[Category:Brother Theodore]] | ||
[[Category:Mark Hammer]] | |||
[[Category:Joseph Palmieri]] | |||
[[Category:Clark Gordon]] | |||
[[Category:Larry Block]] | |||
[[Category:Richard Bauer]] | |||
[[Category:Tim Jerome]] | [[Category:Tim Jerome]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Ray Guarna]] | ||
[[Category:2001]] | [[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}} |