CHAPTER 1: OCOEE
a). we take the viewer by the hand and lead them back through time.
FILM LEADER JITTER TO BLACK, CUT TO OLD FADED COLOR FILM
8mm home movies of a family's trip to Disneyworld, circa 1975 (projector sounds)
-DISSOLVE-
16mm 1950s or 60s Florida Chamber of Commerce film with nerdy male voiceover about the "thriving metropolis of Orlando"
-DISSOLVE-
1920s or 30s B&W film archive or more likely photos of 1920s Florida and Black grove workers
(we hear female voice (Kathy?) reading (Hurston?) description of Orlando or the Central Florida area during the 1920s OR reading from one of the early tourist pamphlets provided by Kathy OR both, and how the citrus was grown in rural areas and taken to Sanford for shipping to the north)
-DIP TO BLACK-
-FADE UP FROM BLACK-
Artwork map that includes Orlando and Sanford as references, but moves in to the road that connects Ocoee with Apopka
(steaboat sounds fade to train sounds fade to grove worker sounds, fade to running sounds)
b). the viewer learns that the Colored spaces in Ocoee disappeared on Election Night, 1920
CUT TO VIDEO
(soft and delicate music fades in)
Present day HDV video peaceful beauty shots of Ocoee's downtown, Starke Lake, etc.
(young male voice reads newspaper accounts of the 1920 election violence...)
pause for a beat
Present day HDV video shots of irrigation ditches, abandoned land, new development
(female voice reads letter about the massacre)
Present day HDV video with natural sounds of grove workers picking oranges, sweating, dumping oranges, climbing ladders
(we hear Stephen's voice reading poem about Ocoee massacre)
Present day HDV video shots of Ocoee abandoned grove, golf course, etc.
(poem continues to the end, we hear natural sounds of cars on the road)
pause for a beat as car sounds fade out with music
Present day HDV video of Stephen silently reading sign at Black burial ground. Pan of the neighborhood. Shots of an empty swing the neighborhood playground.
pause for a beat
Wideshot of Lake Apopka at dusk, time lapse of sun going down in the west, reflection of moon on the lake with nighttime cricket sounds
-FADE TO BLACK-
CHAPTER 2: SANFORD
Artwork map appears again as music fades in. This time the map animates toward Sanford.
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