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Video/Shot Description WAKING THE T. REX The Story of SUE Final Script 6/9/10 (Generic Version) 23.98 Audio/Narrative (Running time 22:38) Timecode Video/Shot Description 01:00:00:14 Open Credit #1: A Production of Fade up to white text on D3D CINEMA Black. Fade out. & THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Narrated By JOAN ALLEN OPEN SEQUENCE: NARRATOR: Within the walls of the world’s museums lies much of what we know about 01:00:09:18 Entrance of the Field the history of life on Earth. Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History is Museum at twilight one of the largest. 01:00:26:17 Moves past dinosaur It holds over 24 million specimens and counting. Among them, some of the skeletons greatest dinosaurs ever found. 01:00:37:13 Moves past dino skeletons Dinosaurs were the largest animals to ever walk the Earth. They first appeared 245 million years ago, and evolved into amazing shapes and sizes. 01:00:58:17 And though their ancestors were small, many became giants. 1 WAKING THE T. REX The Story of SUE Final Script 6/9/10 (Generic Version) 23.98 Audio/Narrative (Running time 22:38) 01:01:06:11 Slow move forward Among the most ferocious of the dinosaur giants was Tyrannosaurus rex, a meat- towards the T. rex eating predator that was unrivalled in the dinosaur kingdom. And this is the skeleton grandest of them all. 01:01:22:09 Camera moves along 40 1/2-feet long, 13-feet tall, weighing 7-tons in life, and its name is SUE. Sue’s length from tail to head 01:01:33:09 Camera moves close to Its 5-foot skull weighs 600-pounds. Its’ jaws hold 58 sharp, curved teeth, some Sue’s skull and teeth 12-inches long. 01:01:46:19 Wide angle shot of Sue SUE has been waiting 67 million years for this moment. SUE’s eye socket 01:01:53:13 transforms into an eye This is SUE’s story. that looks at us 01:02:03:11 SUE skeleton becomes fully fleshed, turns head Title Up: WAKING THE T. REX into audience and roars The Story Of Sue ACT 2 - TYRANT 01:02:15:00 LIZARD (CGI) 67 million years ago, no animal was safe from a T. rex attack. Edmontosaurus herd Edmontosaurus dinosaurs could reach 40-feet long and weigh 4-tons. Their duck- travels across a beach. like bills and rows of grinding teeth were built for eating plants, not fighting predators. 2 WAKING THE T. REX The Story of SUE Final Script 6/9/10 (Generic Version) 23.98 Audio/Narrative (Running time 22:38) T. rex charges the 01:02:37:05 Edmontosaurs. Two rear But fossil evidence suggests Edmontosaurus was a common T. rex meal. up. T. rex singles out one Tyrannosaurus rex means “tyrant lizard king”. 01:03:06:18 and attacks. 01:03:13:04 T. rex looks up, blood It possessed the most powerful bite of any dinosaur. dripping from its jaws. ACT 3 - SUE’S 01:03:30:18 DISCOVERY & When T. rex lived in the Late Cretaceous, parts of the American West looked like EXCAVATION this - - a subtropical floodplain, and home to dozens of species of dinosaurs. 01:03:44:01 Shot of subtropical But over time the climate changed and much of it became this semi-arid land we floodplain. know today. 01:03:52:13 Cut to a camera move Dinosaurs that died long ago were buried within the Earth. Their fossilized along the precipice of a remains eventually thrust upward as mountains were formed, their bones canyon in Utah. becoming exposed through millions of years of erosion. It is within this constantly eroding landscape that scientists seek to find new dinosaurs. 01:04:18:10 Lindsay Zanno hikes At an area of uplifted rock called the San Rafael Swell in Utah, paleontologist Lindsay Zanno explains how they hunt. 3 WAKING THE T. REX The Story of SUE Final Script 6/9/10 (Generic Version) 23.98 Audio/Narrative (Running time 22:38) 01:04:30:09 Zanno hiking Zanno: Well finding fossils is a relatively simple process. It hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. 01:04:35:18 Zanno on camera We find rocks of the right age, we get a team together, we come out and scour the hills looking for bone that’s eroding out of the hillside. 01:04:46:05 When we find bone in the field it’s found in these little chunks. And what’s Close-ups of rock & interesting about the bone, how you can distinguish it from the rock is that it bone preserves its original texture. You can still see evidence of the cells, and the nerves and blood vessels that used to run through the bone. 01:05:10:07 Track past team digging Zanno: Excavating can be extremely tedious but it’s not as difficult as preparation Zanno looks at bone back in the lab, so for every hour we spend excavating a dinosaur they might with magnifier spend a hundred hours at the lab getting that same bone to the final state it will Team digging need to be in before it can be researched. 01:05:30:00 Bill w/pickaxe on rocky Bill Simpson is part of the excavation team. ledge 01:05:36:12 Bill works on fossil Simpson: We think we found the backbone of a dinosaur, a carnivorous dinosaur. We think this is from the tail. We have a number of bones from this animal. It’s Close-ups of bones an animal that would have been a little bit smaller than T. rex but recognizable as an animal similar to that. 01:05:56:08 Bill w/fossil So what we’re gonna do is put burlap now, around it, maybe some surgical bandages, and plaster and make what we call a field jacket. 01:06:10:08 Plastering fossil Once the plaster hardens it’s basically a carrying case. 4 WAKING THE T. REX The Story of SUE Final Script 6/9/10 (Generic Version) 23.98 Audio/Narrative (Running time 22:38) 01:06:28:09 Team lifts jackets into Simpson: We’ll take them back to the museum where our skilled preparators will pickup truck open them up in the laboratory and figure out just what this animal was like. 01:06:44:18 Zanno hikes by huge Zanno: I think it’s the love of adventure and discovery that draws people into rock paleontology and just being outside, getting to spend a lot of time traipsing around really remote places… and being the first person to see something for the first time in 100 million years On camera or something like this. It usually gives us a pretty big thrill. 01:07:07:08 Truck drives off At dig sites like this, a great new discovery can happen at any time….. 01:07:14:03 Sue H. at dig site Like one did on a hot summer’s day in 1990. Dinosaur hunters from the Black w/group & dog Hills Institute of Geological Research are searching for fossils in the badlands of South Dakota. Sue H. hiking 01:07:28:04 One of them, Sue Hendrickson, and her four-legged companion Gypsy, come upon Bones in hillside several large bones protruding from the side of a hill. 5 WAKING THE T. REX The Story of SUE Final Script 6/9/10 (Generic Version) 23.98 Audio/Narrative (Running time 22:38) 01:07:37:14 Sue H. by bones in hill The group soon realizes that Sue has found something extraordinary - - a huge T. rex. Excavation of bones 01:07:46:33 It takes two hard weeks to excavate this massive creature from the hillside. The Plaster jacket plaster jacket encasing just the skull and hips weighs four tons. Team poses w/Sue H. 01:08:02:09 Sue H. with skull And though they don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl, the team decides to name this T. rex “SUE” in honor of the Sue who found it. 01:08:16:18 Bill w/fork lift Back at the Field Museum, one of the plaster jackets collected in Utah is about to Closeup of Bill w/lift be opened. 01:08:27:07 Debbie cuts jacket The process is sort of like cutting the cast off someone’s broken leg. w/saw 01:08:43:12 Debbie & Akiko open It isn’t until all of the surrounding rock matrix is removed that they will know jacket exactly what they’ve found. 01:08:59:05 Woman works on SUE’s This is the same process that brought SUE back into view after 67 million years. jaw 01:09:06:11 Team assembles SUE on It took 12 preparators nearly two years to fully free SUE from her stony grave and armature re-assemble her. 6 WAKING THE T. REX The Story of SUE Final Script 6/9/10 (Generic Version) 23.98 Audio/Narrative (Running time 22:38) 01:09:21:16 Camera moves across Fewer than 40 T. rexes have been found, but only partial skeletons. SUE is the SUE skeleton most intact T. rex discovered to date - - now standing 90% complete. 01:09:38:01 Imagine what it must have been like……… being SUE! ACT 4 – EARLY 01:09:48:21 YEARS (CGI) Female Tyrannosaurs may have laid as many as 40, two-foot long eggs.
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