W&M ScholarWorks Undergraduate Honors Theses Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 4-2014 Freedomland Elyse J. Endick College of William and Mary Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Endick, Elyse J., "Freedomland" (2014). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 37. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/37 This Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Freedomland By Elyse Endick 2014 FINAL - HONORS THESIS "Freedomland" INT. LIVING ROOM- TELEVISION SCREEN- DAY The year is 1960, we’re in a dingy pre-war New York apartment, and we’re watching a test pattern on a snowy black and white TELEVISION. CU on the screen, so that the wooden sides of the box can be seen, but nothing else. A test pattern sound drones on. Suddenly, the test pattern switches off, and triumphant music, like a march, begins to blare from the set. The television displays a black and white image of the American flag, and over it reads the text: FREEDOMLAND! ANNOUNCER (O.S) Marlboro Cigarettes proudly present the following program... A beat. ANNOUNCER (O.S)( Today on Travel Time, we’re going to Freedomland! America’s favorite entertainment park! New, this summer, in The Bronx, in the good old state of New York!Freedomland takes visitors on a journey through American history.