City Beneath the Sea Script Act One

"CITY BENEATH THE SEA"
ACT ONE
FADE IN
INT. MATTHEWS' LUXURIOUS FUTURISTIC EXECUTIVE OFFICE - DAY
WIDE ANGLE - WORLD OF TOMORROW - (PAINTING + MINIATURE) This is the fantastic skyline of a city in the WORLD OF TOMORROW. The maze of vividly colored cones, spirals and shafts is breathtaking in its startling beauty. We ESTABLISH ... then SUPERIMPOSE "THE YEAR IS 2053." As SUPER FADES, CAMERA PULLS BACK SWIFTLY to REVEAL that we've been viewing this spectacular city through the hermetically-sealed glass walls of a luxuriously-furnished Executive Office of the Future, with its panoply of viewphones, viewscreens, and other paraphernalia of Tomorrow. As the CAMERA now FOCUSES on an exotically-fashioned stairway, doors at the top split open swiftly and MICHAEL MATTHEWS descends briskly into the office.