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Structure as of 9_24_11

Rough cut – broken down into scenes and highlights.

1. Beth – I love the earth

2. Married to the earth – environmental confessions

•    Lovers vs mothers

   Take care of earth
   Image sunset

3. Poem with Sunset
   Poet
   Destruction/nature shots montage
   Tree hug fast motion

4. Purple Wedding

5. What made you want to make this film?
   MTR
   Photo Montage
   Wedding intercut

6. Promise to love, honor…blooper but fun and laughs-

7. WV-GLBT/PFLAG gathering and picnic
   Are you and ecosexual?
   What is an ecosexual?

8. Anne-Conception
   Sister and mother
   Challenge
   Tree hug
   Park, home from Dayton

9. Beth in Car-Charleston, WV
   Baptism
   Kicked out of kindergarden

10 Beth at Mink Shoals Elementary School
   Fat
   Car – feminism saved life
   Ecosexuality

11. Annie and Beth propose to the mountains
Kiss the earth

12. Paige WV hills song>good bridge
   Beth and cops
   Larry and dog
   Cindy and Annie
   Cops again

13. Joe Hampshire
   Clean water act

14. Nature Montage
  Poison river
  Smoke stacks + night shot of factory
  Learn to make due
  Montage factory w/machinery

15. Same machines (Marathon machine shop)
   Pin up
   S M fetish
   Classic tool girls

16. Uncle Henry’s office (do we need to see more office?)
   Montage w/ tractors
   Voice montage

17 Map – I was born….
Coal mining (underground)

18. Coal Mining
   RL voiceover (ok?)
   Lights off
   Powder in the hole
   Montage w/MTR blasts

19. Leroy 
   Ginseng – fined to hunt… MTR??
   Little-man can’t do it, big man can

20. Vivian Stockman’s dog-MTR orphan
   Vivian stockman
   Levels of life effect > Roots vs. Transient
   Community – cultural continuum
   Forests as medicine cabinet
   Planet gift – Beauty – Respect life

21. Keith, broke the web
   I love the mountains, water

22. Beth and Annie in Laurel Creek
   Earth Lubrication

23. Tomatoes > wedding invitations
Cindy, moon goddess transition

24. Cindy 
Hawks + montage w/hawk perfect circle

25. Kissing Ground
  ecosex montage w/I love nature

26. Jack Spadero
   Love for mtns.
   Montage (don’t like this shot here)
   Just how precious it all is (Poem first, better)
   1 ½ million things – Biomass

27. Rick and Cindy (1st shot?)
   This is home
   Pro MTR who gives you shit? (this is hard to grasp at first watch)
   Disagreements (too long)
   Cindy and van (cut more)
   Friends of coal
   Sister @ war with neighbor (shaky camera)
  Invitation to wedding
   We all love the mountains
   Do the mountains feel + montage

28. Water dropped by a deep mine
   No longer a town
   No longer running water (houses empty, no one here)
   Seems criminal to me (reverse peaches and walking)

29. Stephanie, not one problem (more context)
   What would I do to fight it (com. Group)
   Montage of houses w/MTR in BG. (sooner)
   Lawyer know who to go through
   Years and money may not win
   Killing communities, people

30. Patricia, Hawks Nest 
   Country club
   Shanties hundreds and hundreds of black men
   Died under bushes
   Sign (slo mo good)
   TOWN OF THE WALKING DEAD
   Lungs crystallized – painfully unaware of what was happening

31. Larry Gibson–coal, lungs of the earth
   Wedding “political theater”
   Purple – MTR wedding.
   Connection between people and land
   Montage nature shots – food and timing

32. Kitty Baughan Cole
   Moon, planting at certain times
   600 qts of food – husband out of work
   grow her food and beauty (flowers) no one interested (take out, that’s ok)

33. Paul Corbit Brown
   Hillbilly
   Photo artist cinematographer
   MTR aerials well kept secret
   Abstract – ironically beautiful
   Don’t realize human cost
   Appalachians looked down upon – hillbillies
   I don’t think people care about Appalachia
   Wealthy people don’t have to sacrifice
   We walk our talk

34.Protest intercut with PCB
   not simple matter nonviolent civil disobedience

35. Grumble
   Tree hugger?
   90% of direct action is hurry up and wait
   hiking – Annies Purse
   shooting guns. Gunshotting days (personal, ok)
   continue the rest of my life. Hope to be part of successful mission
   6,000 fed at once
   what do you teach? Sitting in a tree.
   Porn stars? Extreme – reach a different set of folks
   Beth + rope kiss
   Rope system up the tree…
   Annie between harnesses
   Watching grumble in tree .
   Hot harnesses – machine shop, high lesbian culture.
   Looking up at him
   Bodies on the line (good line, could be put elsewhere)
   Lockdowns Violation – issues
   Stopping industries
   So high in the tree, no firetruck
   Tree feels really strong

36. Purple Wedding
   Mostly like video w/ add ins and Montage